Educational Biography. Memoirs of Teachers, Educators, and Promoters and Benefactors of Education, Literature, and Science, Reprinted from the American Journal of Education
Educational Biography. Memoirs of Teachers, Educators, and Promoters and Benefactors of Education, Literature, and Science, Reprinted from the American Journal of Education
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... Johnson continued for a nmnber of years, and had the satisfaction of believing that he had been an influential assistant in procuring the passage of the law of 1834, -Vl1i0lt gave Pennsylvania a general system of public schools, and virtually proved the winning of the long contest with ignorance and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... Johnson continued for a nmnber of years, and had the satisfaction of believing that he had been an influential assistant in procuring the passage of the law of 1834, -Vl1i0lt gave Pennsylvania a general system of public schools, and virtually proved the winning of the long contest with ignorance and prejudice. During the long series of years wlnle this law may be said to have been maturing, not less than two hundred and twenty public acts on education had been passed by the legislature, but none ofthem, until this, was upon a busts broad and liberal enough to be satisfactory to the friends of education, or practical in its results. Much time and money had been spent in procuring this course of legislation, various isolated col-leges, academies, &c., had been benefited, and a number of nets had been passed to establish public schools exclusively fbr the poor; I species of benefaetiou which that class, to its credit, was too independent to accept. In the autumn of 1823, feeling that his position and prospects justified the step, Mr. Johnson united himselfin marriage with tlte eldest daughter of Dr. Loth. Donaldson, of Medfield, Mass., with whom he lived until his death, in unbroken happiness and tdli: cli0n-Upon bl'inging home his wife, he resumed his academical duties with undiminished ardor, and was now enabled to offer much greateradvnntages than before to such pupils as were placed in his family and under his entire supervision. Although faithful and succes had assumed, its numerous an unvarying routine of school du sful in the labors of the position he d often vexatious duties, and the ties, were notin harmony with Mr. Johnson's tastes, nor with his mental activity and love of positive progress in knowledge; and accordingly, ...
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