Tales and Travels of a School Inspector

by John Wilson

Overview

For nearly forty years John Wilson travelled the length and breadth of Scotland as a school inspector. From orkney to campbeltown and Jura to Dundee, he visited hundreds of schools and met thousands of teachers and pupils.

In these memoirs, first published in 1928, he paints an insightful yet humorous picture of life in the country's schools after the 1872 education Act, which brought free schooling for all Scottish children between the ages of five and ten.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857905499
Publisher:	Birlinn, Limited
Publication date:	02/10/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

John Wilson was born in Dufftown in Banffshire, and brought up in Keig in Aberdeenshire. He was educated at Moray House Free Church Training College and Edinburgh University. He worked as Headmaster of Duffus Public School in Morayshire until, in 1882, he joined the inspectorate. He retired shortly before the publication of Tales and Travels of a School Inspector.

Editorial Reviews

a gripping read from start to finish . . . Wilson had spent too many hours of his life jawing with anglers and commercial travellers in country hotels not to know how to tell a good story'

Ronald Black