Quincy Grammar School - American Education

A Boston school where the modern system of graded schools was introduced in 1848. In an effort to reduce classroom overcrowding and establish order and discipline, the innovative educator John D. Philbrick (1818–86) reorganized the school’s crowded classes by grouping students according to age, with each age group in a separate, self-contained classroom with its own teacher. To establish order and discipline, he replaced two-pupil and multiple-pupil desks with single- pupil desks and expanded the curriculum by adding drawing and music.