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JULES GABRIEL COMPAYRE (1843– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GABRIEL See also:COMPAYRE (1843– )  , See also:French educationalist, was See also:born at See also:Albi . He entered the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1862 and became See also:professor of See also:philosophy . In 1876 he was appointed professor in the See also:Faculty of Letters of See also:Toulouse, and upon the creation of the Ecole normale d'institutrices at Fontenay aux See also:Roses he became teacher of pedagogy (188o) . From 1881 to 1889 he was See also:deputy for See also:Lavaur in the chamber, and took an active See also:part in the discussions on public See also:education . Defeated at the elections of 1889, he was appointed See also:rector of the See also:academy of See also:Poitiers in 1890, and five years later to the academy of See also:Lyons . His See also:principal publications are his Histoire critique See also:des doctrines de l'education en See also:France (1879); Elements d'education civique (1881), a See also:work placed on the See also:index at See also:Rome, but very widely read in the See also:primary See also:schools of France; Cours. de pedagogic theorique et pratique (1885, 13th ed., 1897); The Intellectual and Moral Development of the See also:Child, in See also:English (2 vols., New See also:York, 1896–1902); and a See also:series of monographs on See also:Les Grands Educateurs .

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