Background
He was born on January 13, 1850 at Bellport, Long Island, New York, United States, the son of Joseph Merritt and Caroline Amanda (Gerard) Shaw.
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Edward Richard Shaw
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His early education was received at Bellport Academy and the Port Jefferson High School. Shaw was graduated from Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1881, with the degree of Ph. B. and in 1887 received that of M. A. from the same institution. He entered the Graduate School of New York University while teaching, attending lectures and seminars after public school hours, and in 1890 was made a doctor of philosophy.
Career
Shaw's first teaching was done in the high school at Greenport, Long Island. In 1883 he was elected principal of the Yonkers high school. During his nine years at Yonkers he became known as one of the ablest high school principals in the country.
Largely through his efforts and advice, in 1887 New York University established a professorship of pedagogy in its Graduate School and in October 1890 expanded this professorship into the School of Pedagogy, a professional school on an equal basis with the Law School and the Medical School. A faculty of four full professors and three lecturers was appointed. Shaw became a professor in this school in 1892, and in 1894 was promoted to the position of dean, which he held until his resignation in 1901.
In 1901 he published School Hygiene, a textbook which was a standard work and widely used for many years. He also translated and edited Wilhelm Ostermann's Das Interesse (1895), under the title Interest in Its Relation to Pedagogy (1899), and published a purely literary volume, Legends of Fire Island (1895).
He made repeated journeys to Europe and to many parts of America and was thus able to bring to his students in New York University the best current thought on education in all progressive countries. In November 1902 he was elected superintendent of schools of Rochester, New York, but while preparing for his new duties was taken ill, and died in February following.
A posthumous work entitled A New Course of Study, and containing a biographical sketch of him by Earl Barnes, was published in 1904.
Achievements
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Edward Richard Shaw made important reforms in Yonkers high school, especially in the teaching of physics and mathematics. He developed and introduced an inductive approach to geometry, which was widely adopted, the results he wrote in his famous textbooks, Physics by Experiment (1891), and English Composition by Practice (1892). He was highly instrumental in establishing a professorship of pedagogy in Graduate School of New York University, the first university school of education established in the United States, and is now one of the largest.
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Views
In his writings for educational journals he emphasized the significance of the motor factor in education, and the importance of studying educational problems in the light of biology and the theory of evolution.
He thought, teachers in secondary schools needed professional training on a higher level than that then given in normal schools, and he further believed that such training could be given only by universities, in departments established especially for the purpose.
Personality
He was a man of rare ability as a classroom instructor, exercising a marked influence over his students.
Connections
On July 10, 1876, he married Hulda Maria Green, by whom he had one child, a son, who died in 1889.
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