Joseph Lancaster
Author of Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community
About the Author
Image credit: John Hazlitt (1767-1837): oil on canvas portrait painted in 1818.
Works by Joseph Lancaster
Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community (1974) 2 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1778
- Date of death
- 1838
- Gender
- male
- Short biography
- Founder of the Lancasterian System of Education. His oil on canvas portrait painted by John Hazlitt (1767-1837) in 1818 is at the National Portrait Gallery (London), catalogue No. 99.
- Nationality
- England
UK - Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Caracas, Venezuela
New York, New York, USA - Burial location
- New York, USA
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Reviews
Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community by Joseph Lancaster
The Lancastrian System of education was proposed when I was too much engaged in business to attend to it, and after my retirement I considered it as the commencement of a system which was to go into operation with another generation and with which of course I shall have nothing to do. I have therefore never read a sentence on the subject, nor know a single element of [it] consequently am totally unqualified to recommend it to others ... (TJ to John Preston, 19 August 1816)
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- Works
- 7
- Members
- 9
- Popularity
- #968,586
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 5