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FERDINAND BUISSON (1841– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 770 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERDINAND See also:BUISSON (1841– )  , See also:French educationalist, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the loth of See also:December 1841 . In 1868, whenattached to the teaching See also:staff of the See also:Academy of See also:Geneva, he obtained a philosophical fellowship . In 187o he settled in Paris, and in the following See also:year was nominated an inspector of See also:primary See also:education . His See also:appointment was, however, strongly opposed by the See also:bishop of See also:Orleans (who saw danger to clerical See also:influence over the See also:schools), and the nomination was cancelled . But the bishop's See also:action only served to draw See also:attention to See also:Buisson's abilities . He was appointed secretary of the statistical See also:commission on primary education, and sent as a delegate to the See also:Vienna See also:exhibition of 1873, and the See also:Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . In 1878 he was instructed to See also:report on the educational See also:section of the Paris exhibition, and in the same year was appointed inspector-See also:general of primary education . In 1879 he was promoted to the directorship of primary education, a See also:post which he occupied until 1896, when he became See also:professor of education at the See also:Sorbonne . At the general See also:election of 1902 he was returned to the chamber of deputies as a See also:radical socialist by the XIIIme See also:arrondissement of Paris . He supported the policy of M . See also:Combes, and presided over the commission for the separation of See also:church and See also:state .

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