1881-2 THE TELEPHONE. Rare Rural Teacher Peer Journal - Whipping, Charles Darwin & Education of Women.

A fascinating and exceptionally scarce artifact of late 19th-century American education and rural journalism, notable for using a metaphorically modern title, referencing Alexander Graham Bell’s then-recent invention, to position itself as an innovative "transmitter" of educational thought.

Published in the small town of Adamsville, Ohio, this periodical highlights how national educational debates trickled down to regional and rural schoolmasters. The table of contents reveals a fascinating snapshot of Gilded Age pedagogy, blending practical classroom management strategies, such as debates on corporeal punishment and curbing whispering, with broader social issues like the education of young women and the influence of home environments, etc., 

Contents include: A Prospectus for The Telephone; Personal Magnetism; To Teachers by W. Stearns - Superintendent of Schools Lenawee County, The New Teacher by Eliza H. Morton; Qualifications of the Teacher - Paper before the Teacher's Institute of Zanesville; How to Prevent Whispering in School; The Prize System; Marshal von Moltke; Scientific Atoms; The Teacher's Profession; President Garfield's Funeral Hymn; The Personal Influence of the Teacher; Uncle Sam's Line Posts, The Boomerang; Relation of Foul Air to Consumption; Methods of Teaching; The Discipline of Education; John C. Calhoun; Leeches and Shooting Fish; Why Some Teachers Fail; Turning a Teacher out of School; School Boy Thefts; Whipping in the Old-Time School; Philosophy of Education by F. M. Spencer; The Quaker Teacher's Dull Pupil; Training the Small Boy to be Manly; The First Mormon Sermon; An Intelligent Ape; Retaining Pupils at Recess; A Frontier Humorist; School Government by E. Spencer; U. S. History in Public Schools; A Word to Parents; What Shall We Teach the Girls? by Amelia V. Fletcher; Charles Darwin; Teachers should be Readers; A Very Stupid Dutchman; Theory vs. Practice; Graphic Provincialisms; Teaching the News of the Day; Educating Children out of their Spheres; The Blue Laws; The Brain During Sleep; etc. etc. 

Spencer, E. [Ed.] The Telephone: A Monthly Educational Journal, Edited and Managed by E. Spencer, Adamsville, Ohio. Vol. I. September 1881 to August 1882. 288pp.

Very good in original half leather, some rubbing as shown. Textually crisp and clean.