The Story of a Great Schoolmaster

H G Wells

• 04 februari 2020
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The Story of a Great Schoolmaster is a 1924 biography of Frederick William Sanderson (1857–1922) by H. G. Wells. It is the only biography Wells wrote. Sanderson was a personal friend, having met Wells in 1914 when his sons became pupils at Oundle School, of which Sanderson was headmaster from 1892 to 1922. Sanderson was an esteemed reformer of education at Oundle and Dulwich College.

Contents include: "Sanderson the Man", "The Modernisation of Oundle School", "The Replacement of Competition by Group Work", "The Re-Establishment of Relations Between School and Reality", "The Growth of Sanderson Shown in His Sermons and Scripture Lessons", "The War and Sanderson's Propaganda of Reconstruction", etc.

H. G. Wells is best remembered for his contributions to the science fiction genre thanks to such novels as "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The War of the Worlds" (1898), among others.