The Massachusetts Teacher...Extra: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education

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  The Identification of the Artisan and Artist: the Proper Object of American Education

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  One pamphlet, published 1869, entitled The Identification of the Artisan and Artist: the Proper Object of American Education. Illustrated by a lecture of Cardinal Wiseman, on the relation of the arts of design with the arts of production, by Elizabeth P. Peabody, published(?) by Adams & Co., Boston. The subtitle reads "addressed to American workingmen and educators, with an essay on Froebel's reform of primary education." This pamphlet is 48 numbered pages in length, and is unbound.

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  Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 5-1879: American Education as Described by the French Commission to the International Exhibition of 1876

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  One pamphlet, copyright 1879, entitled Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 5-1879: American Education as Described by the French Commission to the International Exhibition of 1876, by Ferdinand Buisson, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington. This pamphlet is 38 pages in length and is not illustrated. It concerns the findings of a commission of French school officials and teachers who, in 1876, were sent to the United States to study educational methods in connection with the Centennial Exhibition of that year. This pamphlet is a summary of the commission's 702-page report. One of the commission's observations was the match between American values and the school system then in place. The embossed ownership stamp of the Essex Institute is in the upper right-hand corner of the title page. The ink stamp of the Essex Institute, dated March 8, 1880 is stamped in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.

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  Report of the Committee on Elementary School Art

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  Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 2-1881: The Relation of Education to Industry and Technical Training in American Schools

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  One pamphlet, copyright 1881, entitled Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 2-1881: The Relation of Education to Industry and Technical Training in American Schools, by Emerson Elbridge White, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington. This pamphlet is 22 numbered pages in length and is not illustrated. A table of contents is listed on p, 3, which is divided into two sections: Technical Training in American Schools and The Relation of Education to Industry. The embossed ownership stamp of the Essex Institute is stamped in the upper right-hand corner of the title page, and a Dewey decimal call number is written in ms. on the verso of the title page. An ink stamp of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., dated Aug. 29, 1881, is stamped in the upper right-hand corner of the front cover.

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  History of Public Instruction in Drawing in the United States

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  One pamphlet entitled History of Public Instruction in Drawing in the United States, published by Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co., New York, Boston and Chicago, ca. 1875. This 34-page pamphlet is, in effect, a publisher's advertisement for the Bartholomew System of Drawing. William Bartholomew is attributed to having introduced drawing instruction into the American public schools. The recounting of this process is then followed by extracts from the Mass. legislature, Board of Education committees, etc. as well as testaments in support of the Bartholomew system and its products. The title is within a simple, decorated frame on the front cover, and the back cover is blank. The final page, which is unnumbered, is a publisher's advertisement for "Bartholomew's National System of Drawing" for primary, grammar, and high schools.

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  Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 3-1879: The Value of Common School Education to Common Labor

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  One pamphlet, copyright 1879, entitled Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 3-1879: The Value of Common School Education to Common Labor, by Edward Jarvis, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington. This pamphlet is 38 numbered pages in length, and is not illustrated. The overall theme of the book concerns the value of education to common laborers. Descriptions of the tasks and work conditions of various types of common labor (including wood splitter, shoveller, and weaver) are given. The crux of the author's argument appears on p. 25: "The value that is created and added to matter by labor is in the ratio of the skill of the worker or the appropriateness of his exertions and the rapidity with which they are made. ... When the mind is torpid, the hand works alone, and for want of a watchful guide it moves in an uncertain manner and with doubtful effect..." The embossed ownership stamp of the Essex Institute is stamped in the upper right-hand corner of the title page. A Dewey Decimal call number is written in ms. on the verso of the title page.

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