More broadly, the model of the reformed public school itself, as well as a reformed Oxbridge (the Universities ofOxfordandCambridgehad been restructured in large part somewhat earlier to meet the needs of a changing, moralized civil service), came to have a considerable influence on educational ...
This one-room school was donated by a local family and moved to the Leo French City Park in the 1960s. The Olive Branch School was repaired and repurposed as a museum in memory of the more than 150 rural schools that once dotted the county. The interior was repainted, black boards rein...
, Founded by Valentin Haüy (1745-1822) to educate blind students, the National Institute was the first school of its kind. Valentin Haüy was a pioneering figure in the field of education and accessibility for the blind. His interest in their welfare was sparked by a chance encounter with a...
Colin Campbell, Baron Clyde was a British soldier who was commander in chief of the British forces in India during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The son of a carpenter named Macliver, he assumed his mother’s name of Campbell in 1807 when he was promised a