Ninety Years of Education in California, 1846-1936. A Presentation of Educational Movements And their Outcome in Education Today

Berkeley: Sather Gate Book Shop, 1937 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Pp. xv, 413. Index. Gilt-lettered navy cloth.Light offsetting to endpapers, else a fine copy with dust jacket (jacket with waterstain to right edge, and with large portion of top rear edge chipped away. First edition. An overview of the history and development of education in California, both of elementary education and colleges and vocational schools. Constitutional and Legislative Provision; First Public and Private Schools; Educational Needs, 1849; First Free Public Schools; and on, and on including the establishment of Kindergarten, college movements during the first two decades, genesis of Stanford University, and much more. .