Ohio State Educational Conference Proceedings, 1922

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ohio State Educational Conference Proceedings, 1922 Let us forget for a moment the subject announced and journey into the past - a trip on the "time machine" - to take a look at the beginnings of education in Ohio and to think for a little while about the early educational policies and the men who advanced them. For twenty years after Ohio became a state there was no legislative act which created or recognized a public-school system, and for thirty-five years there was no "free" school in Ohio outside Cincinnati. A state fund for the support of common schools was first proposed in 1838. Almost forty years passed before supervision for the township and county schools was mentioned, and it required fifty years thereafter to make the township the school unit and supervision a nominal reality. And it was not until 1914, seventy-five years after it was first proposed, that county supervision was finally established. Despite the many loud and insistent calls therefor, state-supported normal schools did not conic into existence until a century after Ohio became a state. It was just fifty years before the state became in earnest about a central state administrative officer called variously a "superintendent," a "commissioner of common schools," or a "director of education." It was almost a half-century before a state teachers' association was born, and the first effective school journal was not launched until that time. Public-school superintendencies by that name, even in the cities, were almost unheard of before 1840, and public high schools were rare before 1850; indeed, township high schools were not authorized until 1853. There are various statutory landmarks on the public-school domain in the first half-century of Ohio history which we should now notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.