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A.
J. Demarest
Supt. Schools, Hoboken, N. J.
Born at River Edge, N. J. in 1858. Graduated from
New Jersey State Normal School and the New York University. Has had
twenty-nine years' experience in the class-room; twenty-three years
principal of grammar schools of Hoboken and Principal of the high school
and ten years Superintendent.
Under his progressive, yet conservative
management, the Hoboken schools have grown in efficiency until
they are now looked upon as the leading schools of the state.
During Mr. Demarest's term as Superintendent, he has
revolutionized the school system and has placed it upon a modern
and up-to-date basis. He has enriched the curriculum by the
introduction of drawing, sewing, cooking, modeling and joinery.
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He is the joint-author of the New Education Readers, a series of
readers based upon the synthetic, phonic word method. Mr. Demarest is a popular lecturer on educational subjects, his list of
subjects being varied and including the following: The Aim of the
New Education; This Profession of Ours; The art of Thinking; Teaching
Beginners to Read; Creating a Taste for Good Books; A Little Journey
Through Book-land; A Study of the Novel; A Study of the Drama; a
Study of Poetry; The Ideal School; This Country of Ours; Literature in the
Grades; At the Rubicon; The Micawbers of Every Day Life; The Place of
Industrial Work in Education; The Three C's in Education. |
Source:
"Brewer's Directory of School Superintendents and Normal
Principals", In cities with a population above two thousand
Revised to February, 1907 Published by the Orville Brewer Publishing
Co. The Auditorium, Chicago.
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