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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1859 Edition.
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Like many other northern clergymen after the Civil War, A. D. Mayo
became interested in the role that education could play in
rebuilding southern society. From 1880 to 1900 he traveled from
Virgina to Texas as an educational missionary advocating the ""new
education"" theories of the 1840s and 1850s. In time he came to be
considered one of the most perceptive observers of southern
education during the period from the end of Reconstruction to the
rise of the Redeemer governments in the 1890s. Mayo was convinced
that the changes in southern society that Reconstruction had failed
to bring about could be realized under a sound educational system.
Learning, he believed, should be based on individual needs rather
than on rote memorization of facts, and teachers should be
recruited from those trained in the civilizing values. In Southern
Women, Mayo set forth at length the ideas that southern white women
were the ideal ones to transmit learning to the young blacks.
Stressing the greatly expanding role of these women because of the
war, Mayo saw them as a kind of elite trained in the ideals and
culture of the Old South, but receptive to the values of the New
South. In their introduction Dan Carter and Amy Friedlander place
Mayo in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual and social
currents and provide an interesting perspective on his often
surprisingly contemporary-sounding ideas on education.
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