William McGuffey : mentor to American industry / Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skrabec, Quentin R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educators--United States--Biography.

Educators.

Moral education--United States--History.

Moral education.

Readers--History.

Readers.

McGuffey, William Holmes, 1800-1873.

McGuffey, William Holmes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-87586-728-6

OCLC:

457045832