Louis P. Bénézet

Louis Paul Benezet ( born March 21, 1878 in Lynn, Massachusetts, † May 2, 1961 in Honolulu) was an American educator and professor at Dartmouth College.

Work

Benezet conducted from 1916 to 1924 as superintendent schools in Evansville, Indiana, and from 1924 to 1938 the schools of Manchester, New Hampshire. The late twenties he became the pioneer in American education and schooling, as he, theories of eliminating " mindless drills " developed on the basis of pilot studies in selected school classes, which he in 1935/36 published and the ritualized formal mathematics teaching until the seventh grade abolished. His motto was that children R s to the 7th class, the so-called 3 - should ( to read, to reason, to recite reading, thinking, communicating ) learning. He deliberately chose mainly classes with a high number of immigrants without a good knowledge of the English language and mother believed that the abandonment of rigid mathematics education would promote English language skills and thus the assimilation in the new country stronger. His theories were very controversial.

From 1938 to 1948 he was a professor at Dartmouth College. There he joined in 1948 at the age of 70 years in retirement. He then taught for ten more years at three universities, at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois ( the place of his childhood ), from 1948 to 1950 at Evansville College, Indiana, and from 1950 to 1952 at the Jackson College ( a small post-war college, the only a decade was ).

His hobby was the study of Shakespeare and the authorship Skakespeare'schen problem. His son, Louis Tomlinson Benezet was an influential U.S. education policy.

Writings

• The teaching of arithmetic I, II, III: The story of an experiment, "Journal of the National Education Association ," 24 ( 8), 241-244 (1935 ); 24 (9), 301-303 (1935 ); 25 (1), 7-8 (1936).
• The teaching of arithmetic I, II, III, reprint in " Humanistic Mathematics Newsletter " 6: 1991
• The World War And What Was Behind It, (2004 reprint ) ISBN 1419188720
• Look in the Chronicles, Shakespeare Fellowship Newsletter (U.S.) 4:3, (1943 ) 28