George Jardine

Rev George Jardine FRSE (1742 – January 28, 1827) was a Scottish minister of religion, philosopher, academic and educator.

[3][4] He designed a peer review method with rules to be followed by peer editors, whom he labeled “examinators.” By participating in collaborative learning settings, Jardine thought, students develop interpersonal traits and skills “indispensable at once to the cultivation of science, and to the business of active life.”[5] He was born in 1742 at Wandel in Lanarkshire where his predecessors had resided for nearly two hundred years.

Jardine was transferred in October 1760 from the parish school to Glasgow College, and after passing through the arts and divinity courses (MA 1765), was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Linlithgow.

In 1770 he went to Paris as tutor to the sons of William Mure of Caldwell, who obtained for him from David Hume introductions to Helvetius and D'Alembert.

Jardine gave a practical turn to the teaching of his chair, and established a system of daily examination.

Jardine created the introductory college course, which presented new or difficult material in small and digestible pieces rather than as a single imposing system that students had to either understand or fail.

They had one son, John Jardine, advocate, who held the office of sheriff of Ross and Cromarty, and died in 1850.