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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455426703321

Autore

Skrabec Quentin R

Titolo

William McGuffey [[electronic resource] ] : mentor to American industry / / Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2009

ISBN

0-87586-728-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

370.92

Soggetti

Educators - United States

Moral education - United States - History

Readers - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Frontier Scotch and Scotch-Irish; Chapter 3. A Rich Heritage; Chapter 4. The Early Education of William Holmes McGuffey; Chapter 5. Transylvania; Chapter 6. The Miami Years; Chapter 7. College of Teachers; Chapter 8. Cincinnati; Chapter 9. Ohio University; Chapter 10. Woodward College; Chapter 11. University of Virginia Professor; Chapter 12. The Civil War and Final Years; Chapter 13. The One-Room School House; Chapter 14. The McGuffey Reader; Chapter 15. An American View of Education; Chapter 16. Pedagogy and Methodology

Chapter 17. A Common VisionChapter 18. McGuffeyland Capitalism; Chapter 19. McGuffeyland Morals and Patriotism; Chapter 20. The Legacy of the Man and his Books; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Thanks to William Holmes McGuffey, frontier America?s literacy rate was the world?s highest, producing four generations of American leadership in the arts, science, and engineering. In his much-loved series of ?readers,? McGuffey revolutionized education in America, merging basic principles with classic readings. <br /<br /Throughout Prof. Skrabec?s research on American industrialists, the name William McGuffey kept popping up. William McGuffey was clearly the mentor of many of America?s greatest capitalists. Almost all had been educated



using the McGuffey Reader and developed their belief sys