Joseph Lancaster
PersonBritish educator

Joseph Lancaster was an English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education. In the first decades of the 19th century his ideas found application in new schools established in growing industrial centres.
| Born | 1778-11-25 |
| Died | 1838-10-23 |
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