---
title: 'Common Schools and Teachers’ Seminaries'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Calvin Ellis Stowe'
date: 1839-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Education'
- 'Citizenship and Government'
scriptures:
- 'Deuteronomy 6'
- 'Proverbs 22'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/stowe-1839-common-schools-and-teachers-seminaries
---

# Common Schools and Teachers’ Seminaries

C.E. Stowe's 1839 report surveying elementary public instruction in Europe (Prussia, Russia, France, etc.), advocating improved common schools and teacher training for the U.S.

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