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1974 The? Bond Wheelwright Company hardcover. 288 pages. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4".

Like the legendary Johnny Appleseed, from whose sowing Ohio Valley orchards sprang into being, Horace Mann sowed the seeds of better elementary education, through better prepared teachers, up and down  the land. The State of Maine provided fruitful soil  for his theories and those particularly of Pestalozzi, among other progressives of the era. At the ame time that Mann was helping to establish  the first normal school in the country, Governor Fairfield  was citing te need  for a State Board of Education and a teacher seminary in Maine. The Board was established and during 1847, thirteen county teacher institutes  were inaugurated. The response was electric. 1686 enthusiastic teachers attended. But seventeen years passed before the Farmington State Normal School became a reality. The trained teacher is given the incentive to provide students with the tools they need for a lifetime of self-education. The interrelationship of town and school, the changes  in curricula, in customs, sports, and amusements in general, brief biographies of the men who administered the school, and of some of the more brilliant students and teachers, are all parts of this chronicle of the changing scene that moved along behind the constant pursuit of live rather than rote teaching.