Elizabeth Mayo

The two siblings were credited in the Hadow Reports with founding the formal education of infant teachers in Britain.

[3] By 1831 her book had such success that John Frost was creating a plagiarised, edited or improved version for the American market.

The new organization included a model infant school where the ideas could be developed,[5] and Elizabeth took a supervisory role.

This technique was thought to be particularly valuable with under-privileged students who could aspire to moving from just naming the parts of an object to writing an essay about its qualities.

[6] Highbury Fields School in London is credited with being a successor institution to the educational ideas introduced by Charles and Elizabeth Mayo.

Lessons on shells ; full title Lessons on shells: as given in a Pestalozzian school, at Cheam, Surrey , a book written by Elizabeth Mayo and published in 1834; photo taken at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in 2022.