Joseph Lancaster

Joseph Lancaster ( born November 25, 1778 in London, † October 23, 1838 in New York ) was an English educator.

Born the son of a shoemaker Lancaster had as a child religious visions. At 14 he left home and went to Bristol to a crossing opportunity for the West Indies to find and ' proclaim poor blacks word of God, " there the. Lancaster found work in the city and joined there the Society of Friends (Quakers ) to. At age 20 he returned to London and opened there in the Borough Road in the slums Southwark primary school. In order to save teacher, he used older students to mentoring younger students. One class consisted of students of all grades. Because of his religious convictions he renounced corporal punishment for students.

However, discipline was an important aspect in education. Children were locked in cages to or had to impose bags. His school became very popular and grew to over 1000 students. Nevertheless Lancaster was often in financial difficulties. The support of wealthy patrons who ensured the financing of the school, enabled him to devote himself to lecture tours of the dissemination of his ideas. After arguing with his patrons he failed in founding a school with a bankruptcy in the London suburb of Tooting. Then he left England and went to the United States. There, too, he tried his hand with school foundations that were financially less successful, however. Travels took him to Venezuela and Canada. On 23 October 1838 he suffered an accident in New York. From a car run over, he succumbed to his injuries.

The ideas of Lancaster had a not insignificant influence on the education of the 19th and 20th centuries and the so-called Lancasterschule lived on in Germany in the einklassigen village schools still on the middle of the 20th century.

• Teacher (19th century)
• Briton
• English
• Born in 1778
• Died in 1838
• Man