Outstanding teaching method

by John Milton Gregory

Outstanding teaching methodThe author of this book is one step ahead of us and one of the most capable educators in our generation. Born in Sendow Lake, Rensele, New York, on July 6, 1822, he was educated at a school in the county where he was. And when he was seventeen, he became a teacher of a school there. Three years later, he enrolled at Union College in Sekh Nekta, New York, in order to become a judge, but after graduating in 1846, he stopped studying law to become a Baptist church minister. In 1852 his mind continued to teach, so he became a dean of classical classics at a university in Detroit, Michigan. His outstanding educational interests and abilities became recognized as leaders of the State Board of Education. He participated actively in the work of the State Teachers Association and became one of the founders of the Michigan State Education Magazine, becoming the first editor.

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Published June 30, 2014

About the author

Gregory was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in Michigan in 1858, after several years spent as editor of the Michigan Journal of Education. After leaving office in 1864 he became the second president of Kalamazoo College from 1864 until 1867.

Gregory served as the president of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from the university's founding in 1867 until his resignation in 1880. While Gregory credited Jonathan Baldwin Turner as the central figure in the university's establishment, Gregory, during his tenure as University of Illinois's first president, helped determine the direction of the university by advocating the presence of a classically based liberal arts curriculum in addition to the industrial and agricultural curriculum desired by the Illinois Industrial League and many state residents and lawmakers of the time.

One of Gregory's most important contributions to the development of the University of Illinois was his commitment to the education of women. In 1870 Gregory cast the deciding vote to admit women to the U of I, making Illinois the first university after the Civil War to admit women.

To keep this commitment to the education of women he hired Louisa C. Allen in 1874 to develop a program in domestic science. Although the experiment in domestic science would only last six years (1874-1880), it was the first domestic science degree program in higher education.

In 1886 Gregory authored his most well-known work: The Seven Laws of Teaching.