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

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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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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