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Saint John’s College

college, Battersea, London, United Kingdom
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  • Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, 1st Baronet

    Carleton Tufnell founded St. John’s College, Battersea, London, which was the first training college for schoolteachers in England. Kay introduced a system for the inspection by government officials of those schools receiving a grant. He also expanded and improved the pupil-teacher system, in which intellectually promising youths (aged…

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    Carleton Tufnell founded St. John’s College, Battersea, London, which was the first training college for schoolteachers in England. Kay introduced a system for the inspection by government officials of those schools receiving a grant. He also expanded and improved the pupil-teacher system, in which intellectually promising youths (aged…

    Read More