William Torrey Harris was born on the 10th of September, 1835 in North Killingly, Connecticut. He started the first permanent public kindergarten in St. Louis. His ideas for a better education system is like what we have today, high school should be part of a persons educaiton, and he pushed for every public school to have a library.
He really wanted to work towards making school a place for the focus to be on the students not on the teachers. He was also a Christian and he was worried about kids morals. He wanted school not only to be about the educational aspect but also to develope kids so that they could have a scuccussful life. I think his ideas are right on to what education is about.
William Torrey Harris died on November 5, 1909. He made the divided pages for Webster's Dictionary and he made great strides in America's education systems. I never knew about this, I thought school's always been school and that's how it's always been. He wanted kids to be involved with music, art, and sports though not just education. Without his idea's being implied school would be totally different than what it now is.-Breann Lehr
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