Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-419) and index.
Contents
The School Management Treatise. Dock's Teaching Career. Dock's Penmanship and Artistry. Translations of his writings : " A Simple and Thoroughly Prepared School Management " and "Spiritual Magazine"
Summary
Author, Gerald Studer, is a Mennonite minister. Christopher Dock (1698-1771) emigrated to the American colonies sometime before 1714. He was a school teacher and a farmer in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He was also a religious man. It is assumed that he was Mennonite, but this is not confirmed. He introduced methods of teaching children which were less stringent than typical education at that time , placing importance on the use of persuasion, discussion, and positive peer pressure. He wrote about how students should be taught as well as rules of behavior for children.
edited, with a new introduction, by Peter Stockham.
ISBN
0486272931 (pbk.)
9780486272931 (pbk.)
Edition
Dover ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Dover Publication,
Date of Publication
1992.
Physical Description
137 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Notes
"Unabridged republication of part III of the work as published by Jacob Johnson in Whitehall (Philadelphia) and Richmond in 1807 under the title: The book of trades, or Library of the useful arts."
xvii, 474 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. + 1 folded map (38 cm. x 58 cm.)
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1958.
This is number 532 of 1000 copies printed.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
"John Heckewelder was one of the most active and observant American travellers in the eighteenth century. His extensive journeys through our eastern woods in the service of the Moravian Church and, at times, of the government of the United States, have been preserved for us in a number of superb travel journals. Hitherto these either have lain unseen in manuscript collections or, if published, have appeared disconnectedly, so that few readers have suspected how engrossing they are and how illuminative of our early history when read as a continuous narrative." [from the foreward]
