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...Ford's educational ideas are a curious mixture of the old-fashioned and modern. He calls his schools "the McGuffey type," and they reproduce as much as possible the old little red schoolhouse. No advocate of mass production in education, he likes small schools, small classes, individual instruction. But his schools have no more in common with the McGuffey type of education than the Ford has with a horse. Instead of learning from textbooks, Henry Ford's pupils learn by doing, from trips, planting, harvesting, building. Instead of confining themselves to the three Rs, his schools teach youngsters...
...McGuffey was my maternal grandfather, and I am writing to ask if you will correct an error in your description of his personal appearance? Your account refers to him as "the sobersided, carrot-topped young teacher." As a matter of fact, Dr. McGuffey had heavy black hair, and was of dark complexion. I have this information from my mother, Mary McGuffey Stewart, who was a close associate of her father and who told me many things about him. Then, too, earlier in my own life I knew many people who were his close friends, and I visited in the home...
...Dark McGuffey Sirs: I have read with interest in your Aug. 3 issue your account of the recent meeting of the Federated McGuffey Societies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of the McGuffey Readers...
...Eclectic Readers and the spellers, co-edited by Brother Alexander McGuffey, have sold 124,000,000 copies in the U. S., yield only to the Bible and Webster's Dictionary in circulation. The Readers spread to 37 States, reached their crest around 1880, still roll up small, steady royalties for American Book Co. which now holds the copyright. Of this wealth Author McGuffey had a modest share. He sold his copyright for $500 and 10% royalties up to $1,000. His publishers paid him a salary for supervising revisions, an annuity after the Civil...
After the Readers' success McGuffey left Miami in 1836 to become President of Cincinnati College, which foundered three years later. Invited to the presidency of Ohio University (Athens, Ohio), he was exasperated when that, too, was laid low by financial troubles. The last 27 years of his life he passed quietly as professor of moral philosophy at the University of Virginia, where he died "just as the evening sun went down...