The Home and Colonial School Society was a school founded in 1836 by Elizabeth Mayo, Charles Mayo, James Pierrepont Greaves and John S. Reynolds for the education of children and the training of teachers especially by then novel methods proposed by Pestalozzi. It was located on Gray's Inn Road in London.[1]
Notable people
- Hana Catherine Mullens, who worked in zenana missions in British India[2]
- Charlotte Mason, British educational philosopher and founder of the Parents National Education Union
- Marianne Bernard, mistress at Girton College#
- Jane Roadknight, school inspector in Nottingham[3]
References
- ↑ Mayo, Charles (1890). Pestalozzi and his principles. London: Home and Colonial School Society.
- ↑ Smith, Bonnie G. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. OUP. p. 288.
- ↑ Bloomfield, Anne (23 September 2004). Roadknight [née Powell], Jane Annie (1852/3–1929), schoolteacher and inspector of schools. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75588.
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