1st Edition

History of the Origin and P Cb Hist Origin Adult School

By Thomas Pole Copyright 1969
    148 Pages
    by Routledge

    148 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1969. Part of the Social History of Education collection, this is No 8, a history of the origin and progress of adult schools; with an account of some of the beneficial effects already produced on the moral character of the labouring poor (1814). Thomas Pole was born in Philadelphia on the 13th December 1753, visiting England in 1775 where he studied medicine in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He moved to Bristol in 1802 where he was active establishing adult schools for the poor.

    NEW INTRODUCTION,THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS, An ADDRESS to the COMMITIEE of the BRISTOL SOCIETY for teaching the ADULT Poon to read the Holy SCHIPTURES, ADULT INSTITUTION, INSTRUCTION OF ADULTS, Private Schools, The Bristol School of Refuge, The peculiar Tenets of no one Sect of Christians to be introduced in these Schools, Some Objections to instructing the Poor considered, Consideration on the Advantages of Adult Education, The Advantages of Education in a Secular Point of View, Schools at Ipswich, Bungay, and Yarmouth, On Teaching to Write, Progress of the Scholars in learning to read, Some of the beneficial Effects already produced on the Moral Character of the Labouring , Poor A POEM, APPENDiX

    Biography

    Thomas Pole