Joseph Lancaster, who lived from 25 November 1778 to 23 October 1838, was an English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education, and in the first decades of the 19th century his ideas found application in new schools established in growing industrial centres. In 1798 he founded a free elementary school with support from his father, and in 1801 he started a free school in Borough Road, Southwark, using a variant of the monitorial system. His ideas were developed simultaneously with those of Andrew Bell in Madras.
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He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education.
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This method was also known as "mutual instruction" or the "Bell-Lancaster method" after the British educators Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster, who independently promoted versions in which children had a tutorial role.
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