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Popular Education / For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes

Ira Mayhew

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 385 pages

A 19th-century manual on popular education, prepared for the Michigan legislature by Ira Mayhew, a former superintendent of public instruction. It argues for universal common school education and offers guidance to parents, teachers, and young people on its political, social, moral, and religious value. Worth listening to as a window into early American educational reform.

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FREE ACADEMY, NEW YORK. [See p. 386. [See p. 386.
FREE ACADEMY, NEW YORK.
POPULAR EDUCATION:
FOR THE USE OF

PARENTS AND TEACHERS,
AND FOR
YOUNG PERSONS OF BOTH SEXES.
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
State of Michigan.
BY IRA MAYHEW, A.M.,
LATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
82 CLIFF STREET.
1850.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty, by
Ira Mayhew,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United
States for the District of Michigan.

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Contents

  1. POPULAR EDUCATION:
  2. FOR THE USE OF
  3. PARENTS AND TEACHERS,
  4. PREFACE.
  5. CONTENTS.
  6. NATIONAL POPULAR EDUCATION.
  7. CHAPTER I.
  8. CHAPTER II.
  9. CHAPTER III.
  10. CHAPTER IV.
  11. CHAPTER V.
  12. CHAPTER VI.
  13. CHAPTER VII.
  14. CHAPTER VIII.
  15. CHAPTER IX.
  16. CHAPTER X.
  17. INDEX.
  18. ON EDUCATION, COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, ETC.
  19. FOOTNOTES
  20. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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