Old Time Schools and School Books - Hardcover

Johnson, Clifton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810342731 ISBN 13: 9780810342736

Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning, 1982

Synopsis

Originally published in 1904. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

With rhymes and remarks scribbled in flyleaves and margins, with quaint illustrations from old primers and spellers, and with actual contents of old textbooks, this book maps out a delightful, enlightening history of schools and schooling in America, beginning in the Puritan days of rote, rod, and obedience and ending in the mid-19th century, when things began to ease into more modern concepts of educational practice.

About the Author:

A lifelong resident of Massachusetts, with occasional stints in New York City, Johnson taught in a schoolhouse himself, wrote, illustrated, photographed, traveled, ran a bookstore and was involved in politics. His writings were centered largely on travel and the countryside, with his first book being The New England Country, published in 1892. Clifton Johnson’s extensive collection of school-books, as well as ephemera from his own life, are housed at the Jones Library in Amherst, MA. Rahima Schwenkbeck is a PhD candidate at The George Washington University, researching the intersection of business and utopia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0810342731
• ISBN 13: 9780810342736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 381