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The Founding Fathers, Education, and “The Great Contest”

Part of the Historical Studies in Education Book Series

Editors: Justice, Benjamin

DOI: 10.1057/9781137271020

ISBN: 978-1-349-44453-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 14, 2015

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Introduction to the Essays: Reading the Late Eighteenth Century in the Early Twenty-First

Justice, Benjamin

Pages: 201 –203

[The challenge was to write: An essay on a system of liberal education, and literary instruction, adapted to the genius of the government, and best calculated to promote the general welfare of the United States; comprehending, also, a plan for instituting and conducting public schools in this...
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Remarks on Education: Illustrating the Close Connection Between Virtue and Wisdom: To which is Annexed, a System of Liberal Education

Smith, Samuel Harrison

Pages: 205 –217

[Samuel Harrison Smith (1772–1845) was born to a Philadelphia merchant family and educated in Philadelphia schools, earning a BA (1787) and MA (1790) from the University of Pennsylvania. Ambitious and financially secure, Smith launched a printing business at the age of 19, which included the...
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An Essay on the Best System of Liberal Education, Adapted to the Genius of the Government of the United States. Comprehending Also, an Uniform, General Plan for Instituting and Conducting Public Schools, in this Country, on the Principles of the Most Extensive Utility

Knox, Samuel

Pages: 219 –232

[The Reverend Samuel Knox (1756–1832) was born in County Armagh, Ireland, the son of poor farmers. He studied in Dublin, married, and had four children before emigrating to Bladensburg, Maryland, in 1786. There he worked as a master at the local grammar school, publishing poetry in the Maryland...
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Review of Essay No. 3, “A Letter to the American Philosophical Society in Answer to their First Prize Question.”

Justice, Benjamin

Pages: 233 –238

[Though we will never know for certain, the author of essay No. 3 was probably William Smith (1727–1803).1 Smith was born near Aberdeen, in the Eastern Highlands of Scotland, to Scottish Episcopal parents. A precocious boy, Smith attended parish and charity schools before attending the University...
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On Education and Public Schools

Hiram,

Pages: 239 –241

[Hiram was Francis Hoskins, which we know beyond a doubt from handwriting comparison. Hoskins was working as a clerk at the Philadelphia Rolls Office (which recorded deeds) in 1797, but by 1802 was listed in the city directory as an accountant. A prolific and eclectic writer whose ambitions...
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A Plan for the Education of Youth

Academicus,

Pages: 243 –249

[Academicus was a popular pseudonym in eighteenth-century English and American periodicals, used in connection with educational issues. In this case, Academicus was probably John Hobson, a Unitarian minister from Birmingham, England. Hobson fled Birmingham after the anti-Priestley riots of 1791,...
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Concerning Education in Public Schools

Hand,

Pages: 251 –257

[The author of “Hand” remains anonymous. The word “hand” was not used alone as a pseudonym during the period, but the New Work Magazine reprinted an article in 1795 entitled “A Petition to those who have the Superintendency of Education,” by “The Left Hand,” ascribed posthumously to Benjamin...
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Concerning Education in Pennsylvania

Freedom,

Pages: 259 –270

[The author of Freedom leaves us few clues as to his identity. Surprisingly, the stand-alone pseudonym “Freedom” does not appear anywhere in the largest modern databases of Early Republican writing.1 What we do know of Freedom is that his essay focuses primarily on higher learning, with an...

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