Nineteenth-century educational reformers were fond of an agricultural metaphor when it came to the provision of more and better schooling: even good land, they argued, had to be cultiated; othersie noxious weeds sprang up. In this study of education in Ontario from the establishment of Upper Canada to the end of Egerton Ryerson's career as chief superintendent of schools in 1876, Susan Houston and Alison Prentice explore the roots of the provincial public school system, set up to instill a work ethic and moral discipline ...
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Nineteenth-century educational reformers were fond of an agricultural metaphor when it came to the provision of more and better schooling: even good land, they argued, had to be cultiated; othersie noxious weeds sprang up. In this study of education in Ontario from the establishment of Upper Canada to the end of Egerton Ryerson's career as chief superintendent of schools in 1876, Susan Houston and Alison Prentice explore the roots of the provincial public school system, set up to instill a work ethic and moral discipline appropriate to the new society, as well as the beginnings of separate schools. today the Ontario school system is once again the subject of intense and often bitter deabte. Many of the most contentious issues have deep and complex roots that go back to this era. Houston and Prentice tell the story of how Ontario came to have a universal school system of exceptional quality and shed valuable light on an area of current concern.
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Very Good. 0802067174. 418 pages including notes and index. "Attempts to sketch the educational enterprise as it evolved during the period that ends with the Ryerson era: the formative decades of Ontario's first century...The importance of public schooling in the history of nineteenth-century Ontario society cannot be overestimated. The advent of publicly funded elementary-and later secondary-schooling has been ranked with the extension of the franchise as a milestone in the evolution of a modern democratic state."-from page ix. Some black and white illustrations. Top corner clipped from half-title page. Few markings to contents. Light to moderate wear. Tight and square. Solid copy.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; EDUCATION CANADA GENERAL Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (Ontario Historical Studies Series) Education History State Social Conditions.
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