Schools of Hellas : an essay on the practice and theory of ancient Greek education from 600 to 300 B. C / by Kenneth J. Freeman .. ; edited by M.J. Rendall ... with a preface by A.W. Verrall.

  • Freeman, Kenneth J. (Kenneth John), 1882-1906.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Schools of Hellas : an essay on the practice and theory of ancient Greek education from 600 to 300 B. C / by Kenneth J. Freeman .. ; edited by M.J. Rendall ... with a preface by A.W. Verrall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDITOR’S STATEMENT It has fallen to my lot to edit this essay, the first, and last, work of Kenneth John Freeman, a brilliant young Scholar of Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, whose short life closed in the summer of 1906. He was born in London on June 19, 1882, and died at Winchester on July 15, 1906,—a brief span of twenty-four years, the greater part of which was spent in the strenuous pursuit of truth and beauty, both in literature and in the book of Nature, but above all among the Classics. Scholarly traditions and interests he inherited in no small measure : he was the son of Mr. G. Broke Freeman, a member of the Chancery Bar, and a Classical graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the grand- son of Philip Freeman, Archdeacon of Exeter, him- self a Scholar of the same great Foundation, Craven University Scholar and Senior Classic in 1839. He was also a great-grandson of the Rev. Henry Hervey Baber, for many years Principal Librarian of the British Museum, and Editor of the editio princeps of the Codex Alexandrinus. From them he inherited a passion for Classical study, a keen sense of form, and a determined pursuit of knowledge, which nothing could daunt, not