1900's Education | "The Little Schoolboy"

Textbook

By: William Holmes McGuffey

Date: 1901

Source: McGuffey, William Holmes. "The Little Schoolboy." In The New McGuffey Second Reader. New York: American Book Company, 1901, 29–31.

About the Author: William Holmes McGuffey (1800–1873) graduated from Washington College, having worked his way through as a schoolmaster. He taught ancient languages and mental philosophy at Miami University in Ohio and later taught at Woodward College and the University of Virginia. McGuffey was also the president of Cincinnati College and Ohio University. He successfully worked to pass the general school law in Ohio. McGuffey is best known as the original author of the McGuffey Reader series and has been called "Schoolmaster to the Nation."

Introduction

During the first half of the nineteenth century, leaders in the common school movement worked toward a system of...