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Edward Austin Sheldon
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Edward Austin Sheldon (October 4, 1823 – August 26, 1897) was an American educator, and the founding president of the State University of New York at Oswego (then Oswego Primary Teachers' Training School). He also served as superintendent of schools for the cities of Syracuse, New York and Oswego, New York. Sheldon introduced the principles and teachings of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi into American education through the Oswego Movement.[1] A statute of Sheldon instructing a child was dedicated at the New York State Capitol in January 1900 during a ceremony attended by Governor Theodore Roosevelt and United States Commissioner of Education William Torey Harris.[2] It remained there until 1922 and was later installed on Oswego's campus.[3] His daughter was educator Mary Sheldon Barnes.
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References
[edit]- ^ Oswego: Fountainhead of Teacher Education, Dorothy Rogers, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., New York, 1961
- ^ Groom, Debra J. (August 28, 2011). "SUNY Oswego founder Edward Austin Sheldon commemorated with statue; Oswego timeline". The Post-Standard. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
- ^ Reed, Michelle (August 23, 2011). "Sheldon Statue". Oswego Alumni Magazine. No. 78. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
External links
[edit]- New Studies in Education: The Oswego Movement in American Education, by Ned H. Dearborn, 1925
- Oswego: Fountainhead of Teacher Education; A Century in the Sheldon Tradition, Dorothy Rogers, 1961
- The Autobiography of Edward Austin Sheldon, ed. Mary Sheldon Barnes, 1911
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