Some Thoughts Concerning Education.

While in political exile during the 1680s, Locke wrote letters to his friend Clarke of Chipley about the education of his children. These letters form the substance of his influential Thoughts on Education, considered a classic in the subject. "Clarke had spoken of the letters to Thomas Molyneux, then studying medicine at Leyden. A correspondence began between Locke and Molyneux's brother WIlliam, who insisted that the letters be published"(DNB XII, 33). It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the eighteenth century, and nearly every European writer on education after Locke, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, acknowledged its influence.