The Academician NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY CHARLES N. BALDWIN, No. 1 Chamber St. 1820. Separated Vol 2 Missing

Picket, Albert (Senior); (1771-1850.) and Picket, John. The Academician, CONTAINING THE ELEMENTS OF SCHOLASTIC SCIENCE, AND THE OUTLINES OF PHILOSOPHIC EDUCATION, PREDICATED ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN MIND. AND EXHIBITING THE IMPROVED METHODS OF INSTRUCTION. BY ALBERT PICKET; PRESIDENT OF THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF TEACHERS, AND JOHN W. PICKET, CORSPONDING SECRETARY OF THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF TEACHERS; MEMBERS OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AUTHORS OF THE AMERICAN SCHOOL-CLASS-BOOKS &c.
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam Rectique cultus pectora roborant. Horace
[But learning promotes innate strength. Right worship strengthens the breasts] a translation of above not on the page. NEW-YORK:
PRINTED BY CHARLES N. BALDWIN, No. 1 Chamber St. 1820

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19 of 20 issued, missing Volume 2 and Volume 20 is missing the last several pages. Others: 1,3-19 are complete. Foxing and toning throughout most of the volumes, cover page, dated 1820 in poor condition with staining and paper loss but not affecting the text. Volume 1 extensive browning and folding and tears at the edges. Remains of sewing and old binding adhesive where a library or collector had collated the works into a single volume. Limited edition as Picket abandoned the Academician after one year, probably due to the poos subscription. While many libraries report holding this work (65 libraries), few have the Charles N. Baldwin edition (2). Sold as an incomplete set. Scarce as no copies have been found for sale in the last several years.
A historic set of documents piloted by Picket and his sons to not only raise the bar of education across the country but to set up institutions of learning in remote parts of the country. Picket travelled to Ohio and became a beacon of education. Up until the late 1800’s nearly every scholar had to travel to Europe to receive a doctoral degree as none were offered in the US until Johns Hopkins offered the first doctoral degree (other than a Medical Doctor or physician’s degree). All the social scientists went to England, Germany, France, Austria, or the Netherlands to enroll in the laboratories of famous social scientists of the time to receive a doctoral degree.
This set of incomplete documents is one man’s quest to make America a fountain of not only liberty and freedom but of learning, leadership, and opportunity for both women and men. Picket was far ahead of his time not only in his beliefs but in his practices. He did what he preached because learning for him was not only in the students but in the teachers that taught them.
Albert Picket Sr. (1771–1850), a New York City schoolteacher, conducted the Manhattan School for Girls, 1804–20, and wrote, sometimes in partnership with his son John W. Picket, several English-language primers, including the Union Spelling Book. Picket studied with Noah Webster, and was an early advocate of female education, and Lancastrian methods. Picket also published a semimonthly journal for teachers, the Academician, from 1818 to 1820. In 1826 Picket moved to Cincinnati, where he opened a school for girls. In addition to teaching and publishing, Picket organized teacher associations in both New York and Ohio (H.G. Good, “Albert Picket, Educational Journalist and Organizer,” Peabody Journal of Education 19 [1942]: 318–22).

Picket’s desire to advance the education of women can be seen in this transcript of a letter sent to President James Madison:

To: James Madison from Albert Picket and Others, 10 September 1821
From: Albert Picket and Others
Baltimore, M.d. Sept. 10, 1821Sir,
We address you on a subject of vital importance; we mean the subject of Female education, which has been, hitherto, much neglected, & yet, seems not to have received that attention which it deserves. It has not been conducted on a scale, in our opinion, commensurate to its importance. If it be worthy of national concern, to educate young men well, in all that pertains to their morals & intellect, it is no less necessary to educate females in an equally solid, if not splendid degree.

Under the impression, that the interests of Female Education should, and can, be placed on a more permanent basis, we intend to apply at the next session of the Legislature of Maryland, for means to erect a Female College, to be conducted on an extensive scale. The importance of such an Institution, properly managed, is seen and felt; & would, perhaps, be a means of bringing into existence more of a similar nature, in the various states.

Having been engaged nearly 25 years in the instruction of Females & having formed our opinion of the advantages of such an establishment, we solicit your attention to the following— Your opinion of such an Institution —— ——— of the course of Instruction to be adopted An Answer as soon as convenient, would be very thankfully received. With the highest sentiments of regard, We remain Yrs.

Albert Picket, Senr.
John W. Picket,
Albert Picket, Jr.

In Ohio Albert Picket is widely noted as being a leader in the education of boys and girls. He began in New York City, in January 1811, a periodical called the "Juvenile Monitor, or Educational Magazine." It is believed to be the first periodical of the kind published in the United States. It did not enter upon the second volume. In February 1818, he, with J. W. Picket, started in the same city the "Academician" which was equally short-lived. The connection of Albert and J. W. Picket with educational periodicals in Ohio is referred to in the next chapter.

Through the exertions of Albert Picket and Alex. Kinmont, in 1829, there was organized in Cincinnati, the Western Academic Institute and Board of Education, from which originated the famous Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers, before which, in 1834, he delivered the opening address, on the objects of the Institute. He afterwards delivered addresses and reports as follows: in 1835, on
Education; " in 1836, on " Parents, Teachers, and Schools; "in 1837, on the "Formation of Character in Individuals;" in 1838, on "Reforms in Education;" in 1839, on the Q' Qualifications of Teachers;" and, in 1841, on the " Want of Education." When in Cincinnati, he was principal of the Cincinnati Female Seminary. He afterwards became a resident of Delaware, Ohio, and in July 1850, at the meeting of the Ohio Teachers' Association, in Springfield, there was presented by Mr. Williams a report prepared by Mr. Picket, on " Teaching Reading." The following is found in the Ohio School Journal, of September 1848, edited in Columbus, Ohio, by Dr. Lord (Vol. 1II., p. 138): "Albert Picket, Sen., for many years Principal of the Manhattan School in this city, one of the most efficient and enterprising teachers of our country, is still living at Delaware, in Ohio. This gentleman, now in his 79th year, taught half a century, and was always twenty years in advance of most of the profession. He always acted well his part, and he is still quickening and comforting those who labor for the cause of education. - Teachers' Advocate (N.Y.). "We rejoice to meet, from the scene of his former toils, this just tribute to a veteran teacher. It has been our privilege, in addition to occasional correspondence, to enjoy the privilege of several cheering interviews with' Father Pickett,' as he is affectionately and reverently styled here in Ohio, and, last autumn, to labor with him for a week in the instruction of a class of some hundred teachers " It is matter of gratitude that he is permitted to spend the evening of his days so quietly and pleasantly in the family of a beloved and affectionate son. But, as he looks back upon his life, what unutterable emotions and what varied recollections must throng the echoing chambers of his soul! 'He taught for half a century!' and during that time laid his forming hand, as it were, upon some thousands of opening minds. In each and all these minds, he awakened emotions, kindled aspirations, developed energies, and into all instilled principles, to which, but for him they might forever have been strangers. And these minds still live! They are not of the perishable material upon which the architect, the painter, or the sculptor lavishes his labor and skill. The emotions awakened continue to thrill them, the aspirations kindled, to elevate them; the energies developed, to propel them; and the principles instilled, to guide them onward through time and through eternity. Many of those on whom his forming influence was exerted, and to whom his instructions were imparted, are now filling important and responsible stations in life, and are in turn exerting a controlling influence in the formation of those who are to succeed them upon the stage; others have passed from earth, but, whether in this or the unseen world, they still live, and the impressions made, and the influences exerted upon them, have done their work toward forming the characters they now possess, and which they will be likely to retain while canvas shall molder and granite and marble crumble to dust. But perhaps one of the most interesting reflections which arise in the mind of the faithful teacher, on a review of his labors, is, that among all his pupils he has not a single enemy. Let others wear laurels and receive the plaudits of mankind but give me the retrospect of the famous teacher." JOHN L. TALBOT.

Excerpted from: A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF OHIO. PUBLISHRED BY AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY COLUMBUS, OHIO, 1876, THE GAZETTE PRINTING HOUSE.

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