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… the learning’s purpose, on the contrary, it was a useful, even indispensable preparation for it. When educational author Jane Marcet’s governess Mrs B urges her reluctant pupil Caroline to study political economy, she explains that … stating their difficulties’. 23 They could thus become ‘critical observers of and, where necessary, vocal resisters to authority'. 24 In the following excerpt from the conversation ‘On Oxygen and Nitrogen’ in Jane Marcet’s seminal …
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