The mutual duties of parents and teachers, a lecture delivered before the American Institute of Instruction, at their ninth annual anniversary, at Lowell, Mass. ... Published by request of the Institute
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1838. First separate edition, 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; self-wrappers; slight soil and spotting; very good. Apparently an offprint from the annual proceedings of the American Institute of Instruction. Tyron & Charvat, Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields, A 24b (5,982 [!] copies printed): "The Institute frequently distributed, 'gratuitously,' to those interested in the advancement of education, these offprints of the principal addresses." American Imprints 52107. See DAB for a sketch on Page, a gifted teacher and educator whose career was cut short by his untimely death at age 38. The present address was incorporated as a chapter in Page's widely read Theory and Practice of Teaching (1847). "He analyzed more minutely the defects and imperfections of poor teaching than any other educator of his time, and no other has ever surpassed him in his touching plea for the earnest and conscientious teacher which he made in the chapter on the 'Moral Duties of Teachers and Parents'."-J.M. Greenwood, "Editor's Preface" to The Life and Work of David P. Page (Chicago, 1893). Item #55590
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