name: John  Foster
birth_date: 1770-09-17 00:00:00
death_date: 1843-10-15 00:00:00
avg_rating: 4.3
ratings_count: 10
about: Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.John Foster was an English Baptist minister and essayist. He was educated for the ministry at the Baptist college in Bristol and Foster served as a minister for a number of years. Becoming a full-time writer, he contributed nearly 200 articles to the Eclectic Review. His works include Essays, in a Series of Letters (1804), and Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance (1820), in which he urged the necessity of a national system of education.(Source: en.Wikipedia.org)