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Good in good dust jacket. slight spine flex. cover bowed. cover cloth marks. corner wear. edge spots and discoloring. no marks on text. dustjacket faded with rub marks, scrapes. scratches, and wrinkles. edges tattered and torn. 288 pages. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4", Like the legendary Johnny Appleseed, from whose sowing Ohio Valley orchards sprang into being, Horace Mann sowed the seeds of better elementary education, through better prepared teachers, up and down the land. The State of Maine provided fruitful soil for his theories and those particularly of Pestalozzi, among other progressives of the era. At the ame time that Mann was helping to establish the first normal school in the country, Governor Fairfield was citing te need for a State Board of Education and a teacher seminary in Maine. The Board was established and during 1847, thirteen county teacher institutes were inaugurated. The response was electric. 1686 enthusiastic teachers attended. But seventeen years passed before the Farmington State Normal School became a reality. The trained teacher is given the incentive to provide students with the tools they need for a lifetime of self-education. The interrelationship of town and school, the changes in curricula, in customs, sports, and amusements in general, brief biographies of the men who administered the school, and of some of the more brilliant students and teachers, are all parts of this chronicle of the changing scene that moved along behind the constant pursuit of live rather than rote teaching.
