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An Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2003

Parna Sengupta
Parna Sengupta
Affiliation:
Carleton College
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The following lesson on pepper appeared in the third edition of Elizabeth Mayo's Lessons on Objects (1832): “Lesson I. Pepper. Qualities of Pepper. It is hard, vegetable, foreign. It is a tropical production, wrinkled, spherical, rough, black, conservative, dry, dull. It is sapid, pungent, odorous, aromatic, medicinal, wholesome, useful, stimulating.Elizabeth Mayo, Lessons on Objects, as Given to Children Between the Ages of Five and Eight, in a Pestalozzian School, At Cheam,, Surrey, 3d ed. (London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1832), 68.

Type
Research Article
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 96 - 121
Copyright
© 2003 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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