- Title
- North Carolina schools and academies, 1790-1840, a documentary history
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- Date
- 1915
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- Creator
- ["Coon, Charles L. (Charles Lee), 1868-1927."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina schools and academies, 1790-1840, a documentary history
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work on tlio blackboard. The first is to the use of tlie blackboard in
the Raleigh Academy in 1S35, when a visitor admired the facility with
which ten to twelve year old boys solved problems in interest and the
rule of three on the blackboard.11'1' The other reference is to the fault
found with Jliss Rue at Asheboro because she did not use the blackboard
in teaching arithmetic.490 If a small school like Asheboro had black¬
boards in 1839, it is more than likely that blackboards were in common
use in the schools of this state before 1810.
Primary teachers of this day think they have done well when they are
able to teach their pupils to read in four months. A visitor to
AHss Rue’s school at Asheboro in 1839 said that “the first class she
examined consisted of some small ones who had commenced four months
ago in the Alphabet. They could read and read correctly. They spoke
loud, pronounced each word with distinctness, and after they had con¬
cluded the reading of their lesson, the tutoress gave out to them some of
the most difficult words in the lesson, and they spelled them correctly,
giving a distinct articulation to each letrer and syllable.”491 From
what this visitor said about the arithmetic teaching of Miss Rac, it is
evident that she was a good teacher of that subject, because she took
care that her pupils understood the reason underlying each operation
and also that the oral work always preceded the written work in her
classes.492
Lancaster Schools. — The first attempt to establish a Lancaster school
in this State was likely made at Fayetteville. The trustees of the Fay¬
etteville Academy announced on January 6, 1814, that their preparatory
or elementary school would hereafter he conducted “on this improved
plan.”49-3 The same year Governor Stone, at the Falls of the JJeuse
in Wake County, opened a Lancaster school in charge of James Boyle
who was trained at Georgetown, D. C. Children who were unable to
pay tuition were admitted free. Air. Boyle also offered to train Lan¬
caster teachers, lie remained in Wake two years.494
During the year 1S14 the trustees of the Raleigh Academy announced
that the Lancaster plan would be introduced into the preparatory de¬
partment of the Raleigh Academy. Two hundred dollars were raised
by private donations to send Rev. John Evans to Georgetown to learn
the Lancaster system.49"1 The Raleigh Register of Friday, February
10, 1S15, announced the opening of the Lancaster school at Raleigh on
the following Monday and also said that it would be free to poor chil¬
dren.490 On June 1G, 1815, the Raleigh Star said that “though this
school has had an existence of a few months only, the trustees find that
children, who before they entered it, did not know a letter in the book,
can read, write, have some knowledge of figures, and can repeat by heart
a number of moral verses. Some, indeed, have obtained a considerable
knowledge of English Grammar and Geography.”497 In Xovember,
1815, this school had “upwards of 100 scholars,” and at the closing
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