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Thring Of Uppingham: Victorian Educator (Hardcover)
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Thring Of Uppingham: Victorian Educator (Hardcover)
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Edward Thring on Education Edward Thring (1821-1887), who founded
the Headmasters' Conference of prominent schools in Britain in
1869, was the best-known headmaster of his generation. Formed by a
nature-loving childhood in rural Somerset, survival in the
notorious Long Chamber at Eton, a fellowship at King's College
Cambridge and a harrowing curacy in the slums of Gloucester, he
developed the conviction that education was God's work. This in
turn led him to a passionate belief in the potential of every
child. From 1853, over 34 years, Thring transformed a small grammar
school in Uppingham into a widely-celebrated boarding school with
an international clientele. He battled against intransigent
governors, growing debts and the encroachment of government control
over every type of school. After facing potential disaster from a
series of typhoid outbreaks, he relocated his staff and pupils to
Borth in Wales, returning only after securing radical improvements
in Uppingham's drainage and water supply. Although dismissively
labelled "the enthusiast Mr Thring" by the Cambridge philosopher
Henry Sidgwick and King of Boys by other critics, his social
conscience led to the founding of a mission in London's East End,
the first venture of its type. Through two books, Education and
School (1864) and The Theory and Practice of Teaching (1883),
Thring provided a blueprint for high-quality boarding schools, a
broad curriculum and child-centred teaching methods. This is the
first modern biography of this multi-faceted and emotionally
complex man.
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