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National Education 1847

30 March 2016 admin

The transcript of Stow’s book entitled ‘National Education, published in 1847 can be downloaded here National Education 1847.

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A SORT OF AMATEUR SCHOOLMASTER

  • Introduction and Summary
  • Presentations
  • Stow’s Personal Life
    • Stow’s Family Tree
    • William Stow 1823-1852: Stow’s eldest son
    • The impact of Fenwick Stow’s bankruptcy on James Boswell
    • Stow’s relationship with the Temple Family
    • Stow’s relationship with Paisley
    • Stow’s association with Dunoon
  • Stow’s Business Interests
    • Further details of Stow’s business affairs
  • Stow’s Religious Motivation
  • Stow’s View of Society
  • Stow’s Involvement with the Glasgow Infant School Society
    • Dating the opening of the Drygate Infant school
    • David Caughie 1802-1874
    • Committee members of GISS and GES
    • Relevant downloadable documents
      • The GISS Visitors’ Book 1829-31
      • GISS First Annual Report 1829
      • GISS Second Annual Report 1830
      • Granny and Leezie: A Scottish Dialogue
      • Annfield Sabbath School Accounts
  • Stow and the Glasgow Educational Society
    • Relevant downloadable documents
      • GES Third Annual Report 1836
      • GES Fourth Annual Report 1837
      • GES Fifth Annual Report 1839
      • Hints to Directors, 1853
      • Minutes of the Free Church Training College 1845-1865
  • Stow and the development of teacher training
    • Relevant downloadable documents
      • Early Teacher-Training Institutions
  • Stow’s Relationship with the Wesleyans
    • First Wesleyan students at the Glasgow Normal College
    • Numbers of students trained for the WEC
    • Relevant Downloadable Documents
      • List of Wesleyan schools with teachers trained at the GNS
      • Number of Wesleyan schools and scholars 1837-1873
  • Stow and the national context
    • Relevant downloadable documents
      • National Education 1847
  • Stow’s Pedagogy
    • Memoranda for Students
    • An example of ‘Picturing out’
    • Stow: Picturing out in words
    • The teaching of reading and writing
    • ‘An intellectual waste’
    • Physical and Moral Training
  • Stow’s Influence abroad
    • The Mico Charity
  • Stow’s Correspondence
    • Stow’s correspondence with his wife, Marion
    • Stow’s correspondence with William Stow
    • Stow’s Correspondence between the GES and the CCE
  • Some interesting students and teachers
    • Minnie Blair: Some recollections of the Glasgow Free Church Training College
    • Allan Cameron: Schoolteacher
    • William McIsaac’s Indenture as a Pupil Teacher
  • General Appendices
    • Acknowledgements
    • A glossary of terms
    • Bibliography of Stow’s work
    • The ‘lost’ first edition of ‘The Training System’
    • Relevant Education Acts
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