Joseph Lancaster was an English Quaker and public education innovator.
27 Facts About Joseph Lancaster
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Joseph Lancaster developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education.
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Joseph Lancaster was interested as a teenager in missionary work in Jamaica.
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Joseph Lancaster is said to have run away from home, and to have been returned through naval connections of the minister Thomas Urwick.
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In 1798, Joseph Lancaster founded a free elementary school, with support from his father.
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Joseph Lancaster went on in 1801 to start in Borough Road, Southwark a free school using a variant of the monitorial system.
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Joseph Lancaster's ideas were developed simultaneously with those of Andrew Bell in Madras whose system was referred to as the "Madras system of education".
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Joseph Lancaster wrote Improvements in Education as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community in 1803.
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The Borough Road school called itself the Royal Free School, and Joseph Lancaster was granted an audience with George III in 1805, at Weymouth.
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Joseph Lancaster, himself, travelled the British Isles to advise on his methods.
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Joseph Lancaster did make a stipulation, critical in the Ulster context, that pupils should never be asked whether they belonged to "Church, Meeting, or Chapel".
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Joseph Lancaster had rejected corporal punishment, but misbehaving children might find themselves tied up in sacks, or hoisted above the classroom in cages.
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Joseph Lancaster fell out with the Society over a number of issues.
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Joseph Lancaster still travelled the United Kingdom, lecturing and creating local organisations.
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Joseph Lancaster had significant American supporters: Roberts Vaux and Robert Ralston in Philadelphia, and DeWitt Clinton in New York.
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Joseph Lancaster helped to start the first model school in Philadelphia to train teachers to implement his system.
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Joseph Lancaster started a school in Baltimore, but it was not financially viable.
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In 1823, Joseph Lancaster encountered in Baltimore Brooke Young, a soldier with Bolivar's Irish Legion, and Young took a letter for him to Bolivar in Gran Colombia.
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Joseph Lancaster stayed from 1825 to 1827 in Caracas and married there for the second time, with Bolivar presiding over the wedding.
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Joseph Lancaster clashed with Robert Ker Porter, the British consul from the end of 1825, who regarded him as an imposter.
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Joseph Lancaster involved himself with the Topo Valley settlers, Scots brought to the locality in 1825 by John Diston Powles and associates.
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Bolivar and Joseph Lancaster fell out over non-payment of the promised sum to support the educational work.
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Joseph Lancaster left Caracas covertly in April 1827, sailing first to Saint Thomas and Saint Croix, and arriving in New Haven in June.
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Joseph Lancaster left his wife Mary and her children to make their own way back to Philadelphia.
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Joseph Lancaster was there in 1829, and opened a school in Montreal, but his attempts to obtain funding floundered and he moved back to the United States.
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Joseph Lancaster died on 23 October 1838 in New York City from injuries sustained in a street accident.
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Joseph Lancaster became a Lancasterian organiser in Mexico, dying in 1855.