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A How-To Book for District Schools If you want a book that covers all the bases of operating a 19th century district school written by a giant in education of his time, this is the tome for you. You can a locate a Classic Reprint or if lucky, a surrendered/discarded copy from a library. Abebooks (linked below) has a number of offers. Oh, what a different world it would be today, if only... If your library has a subscription to Cambridge University Press...here's a link on a terrific article called, "A Forgotten Educator: John Orville Taylor." "John Orville Taylor was one of many prominent educators of the eighteen thirties and forties who labored continually to win public support for popular education. One can safely infer that his efforts to muster common school support were comparable with those of his more publicized contemporaries; yet today he receives little recognition from educational historians for the part he played in laying the groundwork for the American public school." ...From Cambridge University Press History of Education Quarterly , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , Spring 1969 , pp. 57 - 63 DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/367129 
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