Portal:Education/Did you know/12

...that the first chancellor of the University of Houston, Andrew Davis Bruce, was a former lieutenant general in the US Army and the founder of Fort Hood?
...that the title of Mary Wollstonecraft's conduct book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters alludes to John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education, one of its primary philosophical influences?
...that William Gaskell, husband of the well-known Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, was a pioneer in the education of the working classes?
...that the title of ‘Raja’ was bestowed on Subodh Chandra Mullick by the people after he donated Rs. 100,000 in 1906 for the National Council of Education which later became Jadavpur University?
...that Erik Chisholm, former dean and director of the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, was a Scottish musician often known as "Scotland’s forgotten composer"?