# My Young Master — Some Thoughts Concerning Education character guide

> My Young Master in Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** my young master, My young master, himself

**First appearance:** 0000-dedication

## Snapshot

Locke's particular pupil, the young gentleman whose education the treatise was first written to guide, and whose progress stands as the method's living proof.

## Who they are

My young master is the boy Locke has actually taught, the one whose good temper and love of his book he cites as evidence that his method works. The tension is between the ordinary disciplining of children and the gentler usage Locke recommends, with the child's own temper as the variable he will not claim full credit for. He matters because he turns the treatise from theory into testimony: the method has had no ordinary effects on a gentleman's son it was not designed for.

## Relationships

### [Children](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_thoughts_concerning_education_se/characters/children)

_family_

My young master is a specific child under the narrator's care, part of the broader group of children.

## In the story

### [When Grammar Should Be Taught?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/some_thoughts_concerning_education_se/chapters/when-grammar-should-be-taught)

My young master is the gentleman being educated; he should study rhetoric and logic only briefly, and focus on English expression and practical knowledge.

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