Christopher Dock

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Memorial for Christopher Dock at the Lower Skippack Mennonite Church Cemetery. The author Marguerite De Angeli published the book "Skippack School", inwhich is written around schoolmaster Dock. The respected, private Christopher Dock High.

Christopher Dock, (born ?, Germany—diedSkippack, Montgomery county, Pa. [U.S.]), Mennonite schoolmaster in colonial Pennsylvania whose teaching methods gave rise to publication of the first known book dealing with education in America.

Drawn from Germany to Pennsylvania by the religious freedom accorded Mennonites, Dock opened a school at Skippack about the year. Christopher Dock (c ) was a Mennonite educator who worked primarily in South-East Pennsylvania. His teaching techniques stood in contrast to the norm of the day, and emphasized character building and discussion in lieu of physical punishment.

His legacy lives on in the Christopher Dock Mennonite High School, which bears his : $   The student of American literature, should he search through histories, bibliographies, and catalogues of libraries for traces of Christopher Dock or his works, would follow a vain quest.

The attrition of the great sea of human affairs during the course of a century and a half has left of the pious schoolmaster, as the early Germans of Pennsylvania were wont to call him, only a name, and of.

Christopher Dock, "Schulmeister an der Schipbach" who died in after a long teaching career among the rural Mennonites, and for whom a high school, founded in the 's, had been named.

InDock wrote School Management, one of the earliest treatises on pedagogy in this country. The whole book is based on the wonderful things Christopher Dock brought to the Skippack area. Christopher Dock was a man of many trades. He was a farmer, hymn writer, poet, penman, inventor of the blackboard, most of all; he was a teacher of children.

Christopher Dock was a compassionate, 18th Century Mennonite school teacher who pioneered a shift in the philosophy of teaching by combining academics and faith. He emphasized character building and discussion to encourage a higher standard of learning.

Saur urged Christopher Dock to write a book explaining his methods. Dock prepared it aroundbut then, for twenty years, refused to allow Saur to publish it.

He did not want it released during his lifetime, afraid that it would look like he was trying to build a "monument" to himself. Dock Mennonite Academy Superintendent Dr. Conrad Swartzentruber has written a letter to Dock students and their families, the fifth in a series of communications the school is sharing over the course of the summer.

The J Superintendent's Letter includes some exciting news about the school year, including. a link to the school's Health and Safety Plan. The book is important not only for its description of Dock ’ s schoolteaching methods but also for what it reveals about colonial Mennonite family life.

Other Writings. Dock also wrote several articles for the religious magazine Ein Geistliches Magazien (A Spiritual Magazine) published by Christopher Sauer Jr., who succeeded his father. Christopher Dock book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for : Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Christopher Dock books online.

Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. Christopher Dock, Colonial Schoolmaster book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Gerald C. Studer presents Christopher Dock's biogr 4/5(3). Also inthe first American book on pedagogy was published in Germantown: Christopher Dock’s Hundred Necessary Rules of Conduct for Children.

Inthe Germantown congregation became a part of the newly-formed Eastern District Conference of the General Conference Mennonite Church, but in left the conference, calling itself the. Mennonite schoolmaster Christopher Dock first published his A Hundred Necessary Rules of Conduct for Children in It instructed children how to keep their belongings tidy, behave in public and stay awake in church.

While even the best-behaved Mennonite boy couldn't resist the allure of a. Christopher Dock, a Colonial schoolmaster and devoted Christian, loved his students. He pointed them toward Christ by word and example. His methods of teaching, motivation, and discipline were very practical and effective.

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