The Question
The Question

Author: Humphrey Humphrey

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781527868830

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Excerpt from The Question: Will the Christian Religion Be Recognised as the Basis of the System of Public Instruction in Massachusetts; Discussed in Four Letters So far from complaining of all this, I regard it as the vital principle of the organization. The efficiency of it requires ample original powers. These I would not withhold, but I would be careful who were intrusted with them, and would watch the exercise of them with sleepless vigilance. 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.

The Common School Awakening
The Common School Awakening

Author: David Komline

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0190085150

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"A statue of Horace Mann, erected in front of the Boston State House in 1863, declares him the "Father of the American Public School System." For over a century and a half, most narratives about early American education have proceeded as if this epithet were true. It has been etched into the general American consciousness as surely as it has been etched into the stone pedestal on which Mann stands. As Mann looms over the Boston Common, so he has loomed over discussions of early American schooling. The Common School Awakening offers a new narrative about the rise of public schools in America. The story begins before Horace Mann ever entered the scene as the first Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. In the first half of the nineteenth century a broad and distinctly American religious consensus emerged, allowing people from across the religious spectrum to cooperate in systematizing and professionalizing America's schools, all in an effort to Christianize the country. At the height of this movement, several states introduced state-sponsored teacher training colleges and concentrated government oversight of schools in offices such as the one held by Mann. Shortly thereafter, the religious consensus that had served as the foundation for this common school system disintegrated. But the system itself remained, the legacy not just of one man, but of a whole network of reformers who put into motion a transatlantic and transdenominational religious movement - the "Common School Awakening.""--