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Education is always a hot issue in Derby, but only our
fearless quiz participants knew that Derby native Josiah
Holbrook was the a founder of an educational reform movement
that swept the country in the nineteenth century. That movement
was known as the Lyceum Movement.
Holbrook was born in Derby and graduated from Yale. He
returned to Derby and married a daughter of a local minister who
died a few years later and left him with two sons to raise. He
had inherited the family farm and shortly thereafter (1824)
established a school (Agricultural Seminary) dedicated to
natural science and manual labor. Though the school failed after
two years, Holbrook had established his basic educational
beliefs.
He published his ideas in the American Journal of Education
and moved on to Massachusetts where he established his first
Lyceum in Millbury. He moved on to Pennsylvania, New York and
Washington D. C. spreading his ideas for educational reform.
While walking alone collecting minerals one morning in
Lynchburg, Virginia he fell into a creek from a cliff and was
drowned.
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