biography
pronunciation:
[muhlkaster]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1530–1611)
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| biography:
| Educationist, probably born in Cumbria, NW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge and Oxford, was a brilliant Greek and Oriental scholar, and became first headmaster of Merchant Taylors School. He advocated university training for teachers, and other reforms well in advance of his time. In 1582 he published his famous The First Part of the Elementairie, which included a list of 7000 words in his proposed reformed spellings. |
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