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Agricultural Education in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: An Idea in Search of an Institution
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Lawr, Douglas A. – History of Education Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Personnel, Educational History
The People's College, the Mechanics' Mutual Protection and the Agricultural College Act.
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Lang, Daniel W. – History of Education Quarterly, 1978
Traces the history of the People's College in central New York from inception (1853) to dissolution (1869). Notes its significance in relation to the Agricultural College Act (1862). Contends that the tension between reformers interested solely in mechanical education and those who did not wish to abandon the classical curriculum led to the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational History