A lecture on the subject of common schools delivered before the North Carolina Institute of Education, at Chapel Hill, June 26, 1834 Cover Image

A lecture on the subject of common schools [electronic resource] : delivered before the North Carolina Institute of Education, at Chapel Hill, June 26, 1834 / by Elisha Mitchell.

Common schools (portion title)
Mr. Mitchell's lecture (other title)

Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857 (Author). North Carolina Institute of Education. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary:

A lecture on the importance of compulsory public education, the question of financing it, and a proposal to use self-supporting young women as an economical source of teachers.

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Physical Description: 1 online resource
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

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General Note:	Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Tampathia Evans. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Andrew Leiter, and Natalia Smith. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940. Title from electronic title page (viewed June 11, 2002).
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML and SGML) and images (JPEG).
Original Version Note:	Transcribed from: A lecture on the subject of common schools : delivered before the North Carolina Institute of Education, at Chapel Hill, June 26, 1834 / by Elisha Mitchell, A.M. Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology, in the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill [N.C.] : Printed by Isaac C. Patridge, 1834. 12 p. ; 22 cm. Publications of the North Carolina Institute of Education ; no. 5 Cover title: Mr. Mitchell's lecture.
Funding Information Note:	Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.
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