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Early Education Was Begun: Primary Level Experimental Programs. Primary education in Britain is free and compulsory for all children from the exceptionally early age of 5, but there is very little public provision of nursery education. Most primary schools are divided into an infant section, from 5 to 7, and a junior section, from 7 to 11. Most local authorities have begun to close down the small village primary schools, where one or two teachers taught the whole age range, and have been transporting the children to larger schools in the bigger villages and towns.
RIDGE, rij, John, Cherokee Indian leader: b. northern Georgia, 1803; d. June 22, 1839. His early education was begun in the schools conducted among the Cherokee people by the Moravian missionaries. In 1818, at the instance of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, he was selected with two other Cherokee youths to attend school at Cornwall, Conn. While there, he became acquainted with Sarah B. Northrop, a member of a prominent local family, whom he afterward married.
The boy had very little education; but he set to work to educate himself through the books in his uncle's store and with the help of kindly priests and other visitors to the old book shop. In this way he mastered several languages, while yet in his 'teens. But above all he studied poetry and more especially the works of the romantic poets who had already begun to make a stir in the world of literature. Young Rodriguez Galvan early began to write in imitation of his favorite authors, poetry and drama. In 1838 when he was but 22 years of age, his first drama was produced in Mexico City with great success. |
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