ABSTRACT
In 1853 the Rev. Dr Henry Holden, Edward Thring’s predecessor at Uppingham, left to take up promotion at Durham School. It is a great measure, therefore, of Thring’s educational achievement that fifty-five years later it was regarded as promotion for a Headmaster of Durham School to be appointed to Uppingham, as was the Rev. H. W. McKenzie. Thring’s widening of curriculum to include subjects outside the normal provision of Classics and Mathematics may have influenced the work of F. W. Sanderson at Oundle with his emphasis on practical workshops and the teaching of science. Thring was urged by the Rev. R. H. Quick to produce a second book on his educational thoughts which became Theory and Practice of Teaching and was published in 1883. Thring’s formula for success in Theory and Practice of Teaching was a very simple one: a denunciation of practice by the reference to his own educational theory, followed by an exegesis of his own practice.
