biography
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| lived:
| (1753–1832)
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| biography:
| Educationist, founder of the ‘Madras System’ of education, born in St Andrews, Fife, E Scotland, UK. After taking Episcopal orders he went to India (1787), and in 1789 became superintendent of the Madras military orphanage. Finding it impossible to obtain teaching staff, he taught with the aid of the pupils themselves by introducing the monitorial system. His pamphlet entitled An Experiment in Education (1797) attracted little attention in Britain until in 1803 Joseph Lancaster also published a tract recommending the monitorial system. In 1811 he became superintendent of the National Society for the Education of the Poor, whose schools soon numbered 12 000. |
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