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Webster lacked clear career plans after graduating from Yale in 1779, later writing that a liberal arts education "disqualifies a man for business". [14] He taught school briefly in Glastonbury, but due to harsh working conditions and low pay, he resigned to study law. [15]
At the end of the colonial era, Noah Webster, Benjamin Rush, and others used the educational theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to argue for the civic necessity of broad-based female education. Webster, in particular, started including a significant volume of content intended for girls in his best-selling schoolbooks. [49]
"Reviewed Work: Essays on Education in the Early Republic by Frederick Rudolph". British Journal of Educational Studies. 14 (3). Taylor & Francis, Ltd. for Society for Educational Studies: 100– 101. doi:10.2307/3119702. JSTOR 3119702. Nakosteen, Mehdi (Spring 1966). "Reviewed Work: Essays on Education in the Early Republic by Frederick Rudolph".
Noah Webster ("American Men of Letters," 1882) A History of the United States of America Preceded By a Narrative of the Discovery and Settlement of North America and of the Events Which Led to the Independence of the Thirteen English Colonies for the Use of Schools and Academies (1884 and later editions) History of the United States (1884)
The New England Primer. The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American colonies.It became the most successful educational textbook published in 17th-century colonial United States and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s.
[a] During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. [3] After the American Revolution, Noah Webster used content from Emile in his best-selling schoolbooks and he also used it to argue for the civic necessity of broad-based female education. [4]
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Noah Webster wrote what was known as the American Spelling Book, or the Blue Backed Speller, which would become one of the most influential books in the history of the English language, Webster's Dictionary. This dictionary created simpler spellings, eliminating the "u" in words like "colour" and ...
Emily Webster Born in Windsor on November 10, 1791, Ellsworth was the son of Founding Father Oliver Ellsworth , and son-in-law of Noah Webster , who named Ellsworth executor of his will. His twin brother was Henry Leavitt Ellsworth , first Commissioner of the United States Patent Office.