Background
John Woodbridge Dickinson was born on October 12, 1825 in Chester, Massachusetts, United States; the son of William Dickinson and his wife, Elizabeth (Worthington) Dickinson. He is the youngest but one of nine children.
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Brief Descriptive Sketch Massachusetts Public School System (Classic Reprint)
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He visits different parts of the Commonwealth for the purpose of awakening an interest in the public schools, and receives and arranges in his office the State documents in relation to the public school system. Under the direction of the Board he holds teachers meetings and teachers institutes; publishes an annual report; and sends out blank forms of inquiry, the school registers, the annual report of the Board, and his own annual report, to the clerks of the different cities and towns for distribution. AGENTS OF THE BOARD OP EDUCATION. The Boai dappoints suitable ients to visit the cities and towns for the purpose of inquiring into the condition of the schools, of meeting and conferring with teachers and school committees, and aiding the secretary in organizing and conducting teachers institutes. SCHOOL COMMITTEES. Every city and town in the Commonwealth is required to elect a school committee consisting of three members or of some number divisible by three. These officers have the general charge and superintendence of the public schools. They determine the number of sciiools a town shall maintain, the course of studies to be taught, the textbooks to be used, and the method of teaching to be employed. They classify and distribute pupils in such a manner as they think best adapted to their general proficiency and welfare. They elect the teachers and fix their salaries, and at the end of the school year they make a report to their respective towns of their doings, and make such suggestions as they think the welfare of the schools requires. The term of office of the school committee is three years. SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS. A city by ordinance and a town by vote may require the school committee annually to appoint a superintendent, who, under the direction and control of said committee, shall have the care and supervision of the public schools. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) Abou
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Principles and Method of Teaching: Derived From a Knowledge of the Mind (Classic Reprint) by Dickinson John Woodbridge (2015-07-09) Paperback
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John Woodbridge Dickinson
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Dickinson's boyhood was spent at South Williamstown in the Berkshires where his early scanty schooling consisted of a few weeks each winter at the district school. This he later supplemented by attendance at the Greylock Institute, South Williamstown, and Williston Seminary at East Hampton.
In 1848 he entered Williams College, graduating in 1852 with classical honors and local renown as a logician.
Career
In 1852 Dickinson became instructor in the Westfield (Massachusetts) State Normal School, and held that position till in 1857 he became its principal. In this office he remained for twenty years, and his leadership gained for the school a national reputation.
In 1869 he spent six months in Germany, making an intensive study of the school systems there. During his principalship at Westfield he was regularly a speaker at the teachers’ institutes held annually throughout the state.
In 1877 he was chosen secretary of the Board of Education of Massachusetts and held this office till his resignation, December 31, 1893. In this position he originated and promoted measures that proved of lasting value to the schools of the state and enhanced his distinction as an educational leader. Among these measures were the abolishing of old district systems and the substitution of town control; the instituting of free text-books and school supplies; the establishing in nearly every county of parental schools for truant children; the expansion of the normalschool system by the addition of four new normal schools; the strengthening and reorganizing of teachers’ institutes; and the introduction of the new practise of holding institutes (in sixteen districts) for school committees and superintendents.
Probably his chief service in this office was the originating and carrying out of the plan by which the smaller and poorer towns were given improved schools through a co-partnership system of employing school superintendents. Towns unable alone to buy expert supervision thus got it through cooperation.
From 1886 to 1890 he was a trustee of Williams College. During the last years of his life he held an instructorship in the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston. Besides his official reports, public addresses and contributions to the educational magazines, he published the following: The Limits of Oral Training (1890), Brief Descriptive Sketch of the Massachusetts Public School System (1893), Principles and Method of Teaching, Derived from a Knowledge of the Mind (1899), Rhetoric and Principles of Written Composition (1901), and in collaboration with M. B. True, Our Republic (1888).
His residence from 1877 was at Newton, Massachusetts, Of a son and daughter, the latter alone survived him.
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Brief Descriptive Sketch Massachusetts Public School System (Classic Reprint)
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Our Republic: A Text-Book Upon the Civil Government of the United States: With a Historic Introduction
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- Principles and Method of Teaching: Derived From a Knowledge of the Mind (Classic Reprint) by Dickinson John Woodbridge (2015-07-09) Paperback
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Brief Descriptive Sketch Massachusetts Public School System (Classic Reprint)
Religion
Throughout his adult life he was actively connected with the Congregational Church.
Personality
Dickinson was of tall and graceful figure, dignified, quiet, unassuming, scholarly. Yet physical, mental, and moral virility was characteristic of him; his views were positive, clearly defined, effectively expressed.
Connections
In 1857 Dickinson married Arexene G. Parsons of North Yarmouth, Maine. Of a son and daughter, the latter alone survived him.
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