The Educational Labors of Henry Barnard: A Study in the History of American Pedagogy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

W. S. Monroe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330732618 ISBN 13: 9781330732618

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Educational Labors of Henry Barnard: A Study in the History of American Pedagogy Henry Barnard was born at Hartford, Connecticut, January 24th, 1811. He received such early instruction as the district schools of seventy-five years ago afforded, which, as he himself tells us, he remembers with gratitude, not because of the quality or quantity of the instruction, but because "it was a common school, a school of equal rights, where merit and not social position was the acknowledged basis of distinction, and, therefore, the fittest seminary to give the schooling essential to the American citizen." And this district school with all its, shortcomings was an experience that helped him not a little in his later life when he took up the work of educational reform. His college preparatory work was done at the Munson, Massachusetts, Academy and the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven. He entered Yale College in 1826, when yet less than sixteen years old, and was graduated four years later with class honors and a record for intellectual accomplishments that was not common. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330732618
• ISBN 13: 9781330732618
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 36