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He was born on November 25, 1778, in London, United Kingdom.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ...3, and carry 2 to the next. THIRD COLUMN. 6 and 1 make 7, and 4 make 11, and 2 make 13, and 6 make 19, and 2 I carry make 21--set down 21. Total, in figures, 2117Z. 6s. d. Total, in words, two thousand one hundred and and seventeen pounds; six shillings,, and one penny three farthing. The preceeding specimens are sufficient examples of the simplicity of the method, which applies to all the elementary parts of Arithmetic. » I Every rule in arithmetic is usually considered as a study appointed for a separate class. (See table of classes,, mentioned page 4.) The object of the boys in each class is to study only that rule or lesson appointed for them; and, whatever number of boys there may be in any one class, whether ten, fifty, or five hundred, the trouble of tuition is riot at all increased by the addition of numbers. The inspection of the sums or spelling written on the slate is more, and the number of inspecting boys is greater in proportion. By the method of arithmetic just described, every boy in each class is told by the teacher all he is to do; and his sole business is to do it, eo often as to become quite familiar with it. In the succeeding method, the boy's business is to do every thing without instruction. Persons about to establish schools may soon be supplyed at the Free School, Borough Road; with books of exam, pies in arithmetic gradations and v;iri.-,tions appropriate to c-tery rule. EXTEMPORE EXTEMPORE TUITION IN ARITHMETIC. Each arithmetical class is called out, according to the list, in companies of eight. To each clasf is allotted a proper sum according to the rule they are in. This sum is printed on a card. The eight boys stand round the sum they are to work; and the board, on which the sum is, is suspended from the wall....
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He was born on November 25, 1778, in London, United Kingdom.
He rejected his parents' plans for a ministerial career but brought a religious zeal to his education of the poor, the calling he chose shortly after becoming a Quaker.
He was employed as an assistant at two schools before he established his own school for children in Southwark in 1798.
In 1801 Lancaster founded an elementary school for the poor in London; it soon had a thousand boys.
His Improvements in Education (1803) described this system in detail, including his efforts to encourage and train his best students to become schoolmasters. The first Lancastrian school to be established in the United States was opened in New York City in 1806. Lancaster opened more schools than he could support from tuition and from the contributions of wealthy patrons.
Since he could not afford to hire assistants, he trained the pupils to teach each other under the monitorial system. Lancaster introduced such economies as writing slates and reading sheets to take the place of books, as well as a ciphering book with which "any child who can read may teach arithmetic, " since the book explained the step-by-step solution of each example.
Thriftless, impulsive, and undisciplined, Lancaster allowed his school to flounder financially in 1808.
Andrew Bell, a Scottish clergyman, had originated the system in 1791 at an orphanage in Madras, India.
Lancaster acknowledged his debt to Bell, but developed many new details.
A monitor taught ten pupils, and the teacher needed only to supervise.
Ridicule and original methods of punishment were substituted for the rod. A group of Quaker supporters paid his debts, rescued the school, and established the Royal Lancasterian Society in 1811 as a trust for its funds. Lancaster was grateful originally but soon began to chafe at the generosity and efficiency of his newtrustees.
By 1811 there were 30, 000 pupils in 95 Lancastrian schools, the system having been popularized by his books as well as by his monitors, many of whom later became teachers and set up their own Lancastrian schools.
However, his methods were adopted in 1812 by the Church-led National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor.
Lancaster founded schools in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and Washington, and lectured on his system in those cities.
The first Lancastrian school in Canada had been established at Quebec in 1814, and others were founded in both Quebec and Montreal.
He wrote several books describing his system.
In 1818 he went to New York, where Governor DeWitt Clinton had already recommended a state law empowering each county to establish a Lancastrian school.
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He was a member of the Society of Friends.
Since he was also personally extravagant, he went bankrupt and spent some time in a debtor's prison.