Benjamin Duke

The History of Modern Japanese Education is the first account in English of the construction of a national school system in Japan, as outlined in the 1872 document, the Gakusei. 

This is the first biography in English of an uncommon American, Dr. David Murray, professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, who was appointed by the Japanese government as Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan in 1873. Murray’s unwavering commitment to the modernization of Japanese education renders him an educational pioneer in early Meiji Japan.