ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses John Locke in the context of the cosmopolitan Protestantism which conditioned his post-revolutionary outlook. It draws attention to the rationale behind the critic's claim that Locke had begun to concentrate on the process of education. The chapter focuses more closely on his efforts to draft in Huguenot tutors. It argues that the Huguenot tutors were expected to help change the intellectual milieu of politics. The chapter explores that there were particular values embedded in the exiled Huguenots' religious culture that, from his vantage-point, made them suitable agents in England. The curriculum of rhetorical education, which the Renaissance humanists understood as training for civic life, usually covered grammar, rhetoric, ethics, poetry and history. Each subject of this curriculum came under attack in Locke's Education. The chapter suggests that Locke was engaged in an ambitious project of shaking up his contemporaries' understanding of their own civic identity.
