A lecture on the subject of common schools
Subtitle: delivered before the North Carolina Institute of Education, at Chapel Hill, June 26, 1834
By: by Elisha Mitchell
Contributors: North Carolina Institute of Education; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Series: Publications of the North Carolina Institute of Education -- no. 5
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Education; Public schools; Women teachers; Finance; Compulsory Education
Other titles: Common schools; Mr. Mitchell's lecture.; The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.
Description: A lecture on the importance of compulsory public education, the question of financing it, and a proposal to use self-supporting young women as an economical source of teachers.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed June 11, 2002)

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Transcribed from: A lecture on the subject of common schools : delivered before the North Carolina Institute of Education, at Chapel Hill, June 26, 1834 / by Elisha Mitchell, A.M. Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology, in the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill [N.C.] : Printed by Isaac C. Patridge, 1834. 12 p. ; 22 cm. Publications of the North Carolina Institute of Education ; no. 5 Cover title: Mr. Mitchell's lecture.

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