Explanatory notes, showing the mode of organizing and conducting a school, upon the genuine Lancasterian plan : written while acquiring a knowledge of the plan under Alfred Hadley, teacher at Hopewell, in Guilford County, North Carolina, 1822 April 2-24 / by Elijah Coffin.

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Title: Explanatory notes, showing the mode of organizing and conducting a school, upon the genuine Lancasterian plan : written while acquiring a knowledge of the plan under Alfred Hadley, teacher at Hopewell, in Guilford County, North Carolina, 1822 April 2-24 / by Elijah Coffin.
Creator: Coffin, Elijah, 1798-1862
Published / Created: 1822 April 2-24
Abstract: Notes recorded between April 2nd and April 24th, 1822 on the Lancasterian plan of education (the 'Bell-Lancaster method' or 'Monitorial system'). Includes description of class levels, lesson plans, teacher duties, classroom organization and school administration.
Description: Binding: paper wrappers with "Notes" in ink capitals on front cover.
Elijah Coffin was born in 1793 in Guilford County, N.C., and moved to Indiana in 1824. He began as a teacher, then became a businessman and finally a banker. He held positions of responsibility within the Society of Friends, including Clerk of the Indiana Yearly Meeting and Elder, and published works on Scripture and religion. He died in 1862.
Laid in: portrait of Elijah Coffin, a copy of the frontispiece from The life of Elijah Coffin, 1863.
Purchased from Robert Rubin Books on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2010.
Several blank pages at end not digitized.
Extent: 1 v. (42 p.) ; 26 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: GEN MSS FILE 427

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: text
Genre: Autographs
Frontispieces (Illustrations)
manuscripts (AAT)
portraits (AAT)
Subject (Topic): Education--North Carolina
Monitorial system of education--North Carolina
Schools--North Carolina
Teaching--North Carolina

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Citation: Elijah Coffin, Explanatory Notes, Showing the Mode of Organizing and Conducting a School. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 9248987
Object ID (OID): 10507571