- March 27, 2024 photos of cornerstones possibly Hanna School lying in a vacant lot near Butler Street and Lafayette posted on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook.
- INDIANA The Early Years Education 67 page pdf at IN.gov
- Indiana State Library Digital Collections has many items including an 1896 book Indiana Foot Ball featuring Fort Wayne (Central) H.S. football team .
- Jane's Education: School in 1820s Fort Wayne - February 14, 2023, The First Schools in Early Fort Wayne - Part 1 in a series on my ancestors' schooling on Between the Lines Family & History.
- Plants grown by School Children's Flower & Vegetable Association for school kids on Facebook since the early 1920s by the City of Fort WayneParks and Recreation School Children's Flower & Vegtable Association program .
- School restores name in new home story about St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in the former East Allen County Schools Monroeville Elementary School building by Ryan Schnurr was published February 17, 2014 on INFortWayne.com.
- Research Tip: Indiana Teacher Licenses by Meredith Thompson published August 31, 2016 on the Indiana Genealogical Society blog.
Beginning in the mid-1800s, if someone wanted to be a teacher, they had to apply to get a teacher's license, which could be issued either by the county or the state. If it was issued by the county, the license could only be used for teaching in that particular county - a move to another county meant they would have to apply for another license. If it was issued by the state, however, the license was good for teaching in any county.
Copied from the IGS blog. - Tracking Down One-Room Schools was published March 23, 2009 in The News-Sentinel newspaper
- Yearbooks are also online at Old-Yearbooks.com
- Aboite Township School No. 5, Center & Homestead Roads, Fort Wayne, Allen County, IN from the Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey. Northwest corner of Aboite Center and Homestead Roads. Photos and discussion March 17, 2023 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook.
- Pleasant Township School, Smith & Ferguson Roads, Fort Wayne, Allen County, IN 7 hand drawn images at the Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey site plan at LOC Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
On August 12, 1889, Zerna Sharp, credited as the originator of the concept for Dick and Jane textbooks, was born in Hillisburg. Sharp taught elementary school in Indiana, before taking a job as a textbook consultant. She believed children were expected to learn too many new words at once, which discouraged their interest in reading. In response, she created the Dick and Jane illustrated primers, which followed the adventures of a brother and sister. Children she observed playing on the beach in Chicago inspired the dialogue and plot, making the tales realistic for her young readers. Schools used these book widely from the 1930s through the 1970s.
Copied from August 12, 2018 post by Indiana Historical Bureau on Facebook.- Subject Matters Diversity in Schools This special series takes an in-depth look at the changes, challenges, occasional tensions and opportunities that come with increasingly diverse student populations. Led by Reporter Ashley Sloboda, the project is supported with a grant from the Education Writers Association. At The Journal Gazette newspaper.
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Wolf Lake, Noble County - Lois Hite and Nary Edward Nulf (1914-1974) exit Earl Taylor's school hack on the first day of...
Posted by Indiana Album on Monday, August 10, 2020Monday, August 10, 2020 post by Indiana Album on Facebook:
Wolf Lake, Noble County - Lois Hite and Nary Edward Nulf (1914-1974) exit Earl Taylor's school hack on the first day of school in 1921.
Kid hacks, short for hackney carriages, were precursers to school buses. They were originally horse or mule drawn with doors on the back so the children would not scare the animals. This one appears to be a motorized vehicle. The wooden hack body with seats could be removed to use the truck for regular hauling. Many farmers in rural areas supplemented their incomes as hack drivers. Please share your stories or photos of school hacks.
(The Indiana Album: Nulf Family Collection)
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"Woe be unto the school kid when the time shall come when the pencil sharpener is extinct." A salute to the humble...
Posted by Newspapers.com on Sunday, August 27, 2023Sunday, August 27, 2023 post by Newspapers.com on Facebook:
"Woe be unto the school kid when the time shall come when the pencil sharpener is extinct." A salute to the humble classroom pencil sharpener from 1931!
See this clipping in the Edgar Sun on our site: "The Pencil Sharpener"
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Was The Dunce Hat Actually Used? ~ The History of Ordinary Things I was recently asked if the Dunce Hat was real. Here...
Posted by The Waynedale News on Thursday, February 6, 2025Thursday, February 6, 2025 post by The Waynedale News on Facebook:
Was The Dunce Hat Actually Used? ~ The History of Ordinary Things
I was recently asked if the Dunce Hat was real. Here is the answer. . .
Originally the Dunce hat was a symbol of high intelligence. It was worn by the respected scholars who followed John Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308). Scotus was a Scottish Franciscan priest and friar, an expert philosopher, and a theologian. He devised an explanation for the existence of a metaphysical God in contrast to the idea of a “Man in the Sky.” His teachings were known as “Scotism.” His devoted students were known as “Dunsmen.”
Scotus believed the pointed shape of the hat would, in some metaphysical way, function as a reverse funnel for knowledge. Wisdom would flow into the pointed tip and spread into the brain below. At the time it was understood that focusing on a point above and behind the crown of the head would enhance the ability to concentrate and be fully aware. Some referred to it as the 8th chakra associated with universal wisdom. Scotus developed a ‘duns cap’ to be worn by children. The intent was to help them concentrate by focusing on the point of the cap.
For two centuries the Dunsmen were intellectual leaders. They had control of the universities until the Reformation (mid 1500s) when Scotism teachings fell out of favor with church scholars. The theories were then deemed idiotic and not current with church teachings. With Scotism discredited, the once-fashionable “Duns” cap became a symbol of stupidity.
In 1624, a “dunce-table” was mentioned in the John Ford play, The Sun’s Darling. It was in reference to a place where disruptive children, or dullards, were seated apart from others. More than 200 years later, Charles Dickens’ 1840 novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, referenced the Dunce cap.
During the Victorian era the Dunce cap was used as a method of discipline in Europe and America. It was as much a punishment as a warning to other children thinking of acting out. The classic late 1800s school image is of a sullen child in a cone hat sitting on a stool in a corner of the classroom. The hat was labeled with the word “dunce” or a large letter “D.”
The conical hat served to shame disruptive children. This included the troublemakers, class clowns, slow learners, and children with learning disabilities. Other targeted children were immigrants with language limitations and farm kids who only attended school periodically because of farm work. Children were made to sit or stand on the stool wearing the dunce cap. By the 1950s classroom etiquette changed in the United States. Use of the dunce cap was phased out and banned in most Western schools. In some parts of England this habit persisted into the 2000s.
Scotus was redeemed when in 1993, Pope John Paul II beatified Scotus (assigned religious honor) for his contributions to religious theory. But this did not change the universally negative connotation attributed to the Dunce cap.
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