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Robert Hebert Quick

1831 – 1891

English educator

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About Robert Hebert Quick

Lived 1831 – 1891 (aged 59–60). Robert Hebert Quick was a British writer, pedagogue and educator.

Robert Hebert Quick (30 September 1831 – 1891) was an English educator and writer on education. Political history was the usual venue for Whig history of the sort that presented the past as a story of achievements accumulating to the present stage. However, Quick and G. A. N. Lowndes were the leaders of the Whig school of the history of education. In 1898 Quick explained the value of studying the history of educational reform, arguing that the past accomplishments were cumulative and "would raise us to a higher standing-point from which we may see much that will make the right road clearer to us".

Life Born in Harrow, London, he was the eldest son of James Carthew Quick, a prosperous merchant. Quick was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1854 and was ordained the following year. Afterwards he was assistant to Joseph Merriman at Cranleigh School; and assistant master at Harrow School, appointed by Henry Montagu Butler, an old friend.

Quick was the first to lecture at Cambridge on the history of education (1879), to the new teachers' training syndicate.

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Birth century
Died
1891
Education
Trinity College, Harrow School
Also known as
R. H. Quick, Reverend R. H. Quick, R. H. Q.

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English educator (1831–1891)

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Robert Hebert Quick was born on 30 September 1831.

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Robert Hebert Quick died in 1891.

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Robert Hebert Quick was a writer, pedagogue and educator.

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Robert Hebert Quick was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Robert Hebert Quick

· Wikidata: Q7345365

· DBpedia: Robert Hebert Quick

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