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Birth of Benjamin Franklin
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Pioneers of Teaching
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Benjamin Franklin's Contribution to Education
Proposes plan to establish University of Pennsylvania. Founded an academy, private secondary school, who's useful knowledge and science differed notably from the traditional Latin grammar school. -
Birth of Thomas Jefferson
Birthplace: Shadwell in the Colony of Virginia -
Birth of Benjamin Rush
Birthplace: Byberry, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania -
Birth of Noah Webster
Birthplace: West Hartford, Connecticut -
Rush's Contribution to Education
Rush's plan for a comprehensive system state schools and colleges combined private and public interests. Rush wanted schools to be denominationally affiliated and offer a faith-based education. -
Thomas Jefferson's Contribution to Education
Principal founder of the University of Virginia. Education's major purpose was to promote a republican society of literature and well-informed citizens. The bill anticipated the idea of academic merit scholarships. -
Birth of Horace Mann
Birthplace: Franklin, Massachusetts -
Birth of Catharine Beecher
Birthplace: East Hampton, New York -
Birth of William Holmes McGuffey
Birthplace: Washington County, Pennslyvania -
Mann's Contribution to Education
Mann sought to win national support for public schools. Used his political acumen to mobilize support and build a coalition for public education -
Beecher's Contribution to Education
Beecher founded and operated the Hartford Female Seminary, in Hartford, Connecticut until 1831. Then created the Western Female Institute as a model for a proposed network of teacher-education institutions in 1832. -
Noah Webster's Contribution to Education
After years of intensive research, his American Dictionary was published. Believing that a common language and literature would build a sense of national identity, Webster worked to construct a distinctive American version of the English language with its own idiom, pronunciation, and style. -
Catharine Beecher's Contribution to Education
Publishes suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education -
McGuffey's Contribution to Education
Wrote the widely used and highly popular McGuffey readers. Reaffirming the values of white, middle-class, Protestant Americans, McGuffey readers emphasized literacy. -
Birth of Booker T. Washington
Birthplace: Hale's Ford, Virginia -
Washington's Contribution to Education
Washington developed a symbolic racial theory that blacks and whites were mutually dependent economically but could remain separate socially. -
Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois
Birthplace: Great Barrington, Massachusetts -
Washington's Contribution to Education
Booker T. Washington endorsed industrial education, believing that African American youth should be trained as skilled domestic servants, farmers, and vocational workers in trades rather than educated for the professions. -
Du Bois's Contribution to Education
Developed the concept of the "talented tenth", believing that African Americans needed well-educated leaders, to which at least 10 percent of the African American population should receive a higher education.
