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This work on the theory of education was first published in 1839. The five writers had been chosen as the winners in a competition for an essay on the 'Expediency and Means of Elevating the Profession of the Educator in Society', organised by the Central Society of Education, founded in 1837 to promote state funding of education, at a time when the 'monitor' system, whereby older children taught younger ones, was seen as an effective (and money-saving) method. The journalist John Lalor (1814-56) won first prize with a wide-ranging consideration of all the aspects of education, comparing the status of teachers through history and across several countries, and championing their 'sacred mission'. The runners-up were the writer John A. Heraud, the Unitarian minister Edward Higginson, the lawyer and author James Simpson, and Mrs Sarah Porter, prolific writer on education and sister of the political economist David Ricardo.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Philosophy & theory of education

• Full title: Educator
• Subtitle: Prize Essays on the Expediency and Means of Elevating the Profession of the Educator in Society
• Author: J. Simpson, Edward Higginson, John Abraham Heraud, John Lalor, Sarah Porter
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 554
• EAN: 9781108075367
• ISBN: 1108075363
• ID: 04769328
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 700 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. November 2014

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