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Edward Brewster Sheldon (February 4, 1886, in Chicago, Illinois – April 1, 1946, in New York City) was an American dramatist. His plays include Salvation Nell (1908) and Romance (1913), which was made into a motion picture with Greta Garbo.
As president of the Oswego Training School in Oswego, New York, from 1861 until his death, Sheldon worked to fulfill his commitment to make education accessible to all children, both in practice through free schools and in theory through a Pestalozzian teaching style.
Jan 15, 2010 · Sheldon, Edward, 1886-1946 Publisher New York, Scribner Collection internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English
Edward Austin Sheldon 1861-1897 Drawn to the positive impact education can make in the lives of others, Sheldon adopted the then-revolutionary object teaching method that brought learning alive and blended it with in-class teacher training: "No such school existed in America, and the methods of instruction were quite as new as the design of the ...
Mar 1, 2001 · The portrait below of Edward Sheldon '08, A.M. '08, shows the first promising American playwright of the last century as he must have looked when he was in his late twenties: the author of a string of Broadway successes, a restless world traveler and dashing social figure, the author of at least one play--Romance--whose London run of 1,049 ...
Jun 11, 2018 · Normal-school educator. Youth. Born in Perry centre, New York, on 4 October 1823, Edward Sheldon worked on his father ’ s farm as a young boy. He attended the private Perry Center Academy and enrolled in 1844 at Hamilton College.
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Edward Austin Sheldon (October 4, 1823 – August 26, 1897) was an American educator, and the founding president of State University of New York at Oswego (then Oswego Primary Teachers' Training School).
