The Home and Colonial School Society was a school founded in 1836 by
Elizabeth Mayo, Charles Mayo,
James Pierrepont Greaves and John S. Reynolds for the education of children and the training of teachers especially by then novel methods proposed by
Pestalozzi Pestalozzi is the surname of an Italian family originally based in Gravedona and Chiavenna who settled in Switzerland during the Counter-Reformation. Members of this family include:
* Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827), Swiss pedagogue an ...
. It was located on Gray's Inn Road in London.
Notable people
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Hana Catherine Mullens, who worked in
zenana missions in
British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...
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Charlotte Mason
Charlotte Maria Shaw Mason (1 January 1842 – 16 January 1923) was a British educator and reformer in England at the turn of the twentieth century. She proposed to base the education of children upon a wide and liberal curriculum. She was in ...
, British educational philosopher and founder of the Parents National Education Union
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Marianne Bernard, mistress at Girton College#
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Jane Roadknight, school inspector in Nottingham
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Defunct schools in the City of London
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