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John Ernest Adamson was born on January 11, 1867 in Westgate Common, Wakefield, Wales, United Kingdom. He was the son of Tom, an engine fitter, and Eliza (Stokoe) Adamson.
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John Ernest Adamson was born on January 11, 1867 in Westgate Common, Wakefield, Wales, United Kingdom. He was the son of Tom, an engine fitter, and Eliza (Stokoe) Adamson.
Adamson attended St. Mark’s College in Chelsea. He was educated at the University of London, receiving Bachelor of Arts degree from it in 1894. He obtained Doctor of Letters degree from that university only 26 years later.
During his long and distinguished career in education, Sir John Adamson strived to improve the educational system in South Africa, his adopted country, through his clear and lucid writings on practice and theory. In addition, he wrote poetry that celebrated the beauty of Africa as well as wide-ranging essays on philosophy. Among the topics he treated in his works are morality, language, literature, politics, religion, society, science, and nature.
In his The Teacher's Logic Adamson sought to introduce teachers to the basic principles of logic and how this discipline could enhance teaching. Shortly after leaving Wales for Pretoria, South Africa, in 1902, he published a study on Plato’s views of education, The Theory of Education in Plato’s “Republic.” As well as being a study of Plato, Adamson included his personal views on education, the role of the individual in society, and how to promote harmony in society. Throughout the work he stressed the individualism of the student and the need for teachers to make a process of discovery the basis of pedagogy instead of rote learning.
Adamson was a principal at Norman College in 1902, becoming the director of education for the Transvaal in 1905. He held the last post till 1924. He was a moving force behind the Transvaal Education Act of 1907, which created an educational system based on the European model but that also met the needs of the diverse colonists. To further his knowledge, Adamson studied at London University during World War I. His doctoral thesis was the wide-ranging The Individual and the Environment: Some Aspects of the Theory of Education as Adjustment. In one section Adamson dealt with methods of teaching science, geography, chemistry, and health education, while in another he tackled politics, economics, sociology, history, literature, and vocational education. A final chapter dealt with morality and religious instruction as part of the curriculum.
In 1922 Adamson was appointed vice chancellor of the University of South Africa and several years later he became a master at Rhodes University College, a position he held until his retirement in 1930. During the early 1930s, Adamson published essays on a wide variety of topics, many of which were collected in Externals and Essentials. His last significant essay, published in 1936, was a history of the university system in South Africa.
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“To make accessible without oversimplifying what many find abstruse, to improve teaching by instructing teachers in the methods and matter of their discipline, to advance the cause of the intellectual life by conveying his love for it—these are the principles that guided Adamson throughout his career,” - David Rampton
Adamson was married to Gwendolyn Thomas in 1897. The couple had no children.
