Lancaster, Joseph, 1778-1838

Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838) was the founder of a monitorial method of teaching which came to be known as the Lancasterian system of education. Born in England, he opened in 1798 a school to educate inexpensively poor children in the Borough Road neighborhood of London. His system of education gained widespread popularity and led eventually to the establishment of over two hundred schools modeled after the Borough Road institution. Dissension and monetary problems plagued him throughout his career in England, the U.S., Canada, and South America. Lancaster wrote several pamphlets and in 1833 he published an autobiographical sketch and plea for financial support entitled Epitome of Some of the Chief Events and Transactions in the Life of Joseph Lancaster...

From the description of Papers, 1796-1840. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 214081372

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