Louis P. Bénézet

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Louis Paul Bénézet (born March 21, 1878 in Lynn , Massachusetts , † May 2, 1961 in Honolulu ) was an American educator and professor at Dartmouth College .

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Benezet directed the schools in Evansville , Indiana, as superintendent from 1916 to 1924 , and the schools in Manchester , New Hampshire from 1924 to 1938 . At the end of the twenties he developed into a pioneer in American education and schooling when, based on pilot studies in selected school classes that he published in 1935/36, he developed theories to eliminate "senseless drills " and the ritualized formal mathematics lessons up to Abolished seventh grade. His motto was that children up to the 7th grade should learn the so-called 3 R s (to read, to reason, to recite - reading, thinking, communicating). He deliberately chose mainly classes with a high number of immigrants without a good knowledge of English as their mother tongue and believed that doing without rigid mathematics lessons would promote English language skills and thus assimilation in the new country more. His theories have been very controversial.

From 1938 to 1948 he was a professor at Dartmouth College . There he retired in 1948 at the age of 70. He then taught at three universities for ten more years, Bradley University , Peoria , Illinois (the place of his childhood), Evansville College , Indiana, 1948 to 1950 , and Jackson College (a small post-war college, the 1950 to 1952) only existed for a decade).

His hobby was Shakespeare and Shakespeare's authorship problem. His son Louis Tomlinson Benezet was an influential US education politician.

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  • The teaching of arithmetic I, II, III: The story of an experiment, "Journal of the National Education Association" 24 (8), 241-244 (1935); 24 (9): 301-303 (1935); 25 (1), 7-8, (1936).
  • The teaching of arithmetic I, II, III, reprinted in "Humanistic Mathematics Newsletter" 6: 1991
  • The World War And What Was Behind It, (2004 reprint) ISBN 1419188720
  • Look in the Chronicles, Shakespeare Fellowship Newsletter (US) 4: 3, (1943) 28

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SURNAME Bénézet, Louis P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bénézet, Louis Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American educator and professor at Dartmouth College
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Lynn , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1961
Place of death Honolulu