William Henry Denham Rouse (/raʊz/; 30 May 1863 – 10 February 1950) was a pioneering British teacher who advocated the use of the "direct method" of teaching Latin and Greek.
[1] After his family returned home on leave to Britain Rouse was sent to Regent's Park College in London, where he studied as a lay student.
Ransome later wrote: "My greatest piece of good fortune in coming to Rugby was that I passed so low into the school ... that I came at once into the hands of a most remarkable man whom I might otherwise never have met.
Although the curriculum at the Perse was dominated by classics, he urged that science should be learned through experiment and observation.
In 1911 Rouse started a successful series of summer schools for teachers to encourage the use of the direct method of teaching Latin and Greek.