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Andrew Bell

Scottish educator
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Andrew Bell (born March 27, 1753, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland—died January 27, 1832, Cheltenham, England) was a Scottish clergyman who developed popular education by the method of supervised mutual teaching among students. Bell graduated from the University of St. Andrews and went as a tutor to Virginia in colonial North America, where, in addition to teaching, he made a small fortune trading tobacco. He returned to Great Britain in 1781 and continued tutoring at St....

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