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'''Frederick Gordon Pearce''' (24 March 1892<ref>''UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960'' for Frederick G Pearcem schoolmaster</ref> – 1962) was an [[English people|English]] [[educationist]], who served in India and [[Ceylon]]. He is regarded as the founder of the Indian [[Public school (United Kingdom)|public school]] movement.<br />
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== Educational philosophy ==<br />
Pearce was deeply influenced by the ''Teachings on Education'' of the philosopher [[Jiddu Krishnamurti]] and was a proponent of a scheme of "New Education".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Blue Mountains School|url=http://www.bluemountains.org.in/aboutbms.html|publisher=Blue Mountains School|accessdate=28 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130013719/http://www.bluemountains.org.in/aboutbms.html|archive-date=30 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> He helped found the Indian Boy Scout Movement, later subsumed into the [[Scouting in India|Scout Movement of India]] on [[Baden-Powell]]'s request, with [[Annie Besant]].<ref name="thehindu">{{cite news|title=Blueprint for a life|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/blueprint-for-a-life/article4339863.ece|accessdate=28 January 2013|newspaper=The Hindu|date=January 26, 2013}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Pearce worked with several well known public [[Boarding school|residential schools]] in India. He served as the Director General of Education for [[Gwalior]] and helped convert the [[Scindia School]] founded by the [[Maharaja of Gwalior]] into a residential school.<ref name="thehindu">{{cite news|title=Blueprint for a life|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/blueprint-for-a-life/article4339863.ece|accessdate=28 January 2013|newspaper=The Hindu|date=January 26, 2013}}</ref> During 1921 to 1923 he was the principal of [[Mahinda College]], a [[Buddhist]] boys school in [[Galle]], [[Sri Lanka]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Principals of Mahinda|url=http://mahindacollege.lk/principals.html|accessdate=26 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013123110/http://mahindacollege.lk/principals.html|archive-date=13 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also served as Secretary to the Ministry of Education in [[Ceylon]] in the late 1940s, a position he resigned to become the Principal of [[Rishi Valley School]]. His innovations there included attempts to involve children in farming, tailoring the curriculum for individual students and scrapping the system of annual examinations and the practice of ''asthachal''. He served as Principal of the Rishi Valley School for a decade from 1949.<ref name="thehindu" /> Following his resignation from the school, Pearce founded the Blue Mountains School at [[Ootacamund]] in 1961.<ref>{{cite web|title=India Schools : The Blue Mountain School, Ootacamund|url=http://www.indicareer.com/India-Residential-Schools/Tamil-Nadu/The-Blue-Mountain-School-Ootacamund.html|accessdate=28 January 2013}}</ref> Pearce was also closely associated with the establishment of the [[Netarhat Residential School|Netarhat Vidyalaya]] in [[Jharkhand]] and his contributions to education were gratefully acknowledged by [[President of India|President]] [[Rajendra Prasad]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Prasad|first=Rajendra|title=Dr. Rajendra Prasad: Correspondence and Select Documents, Volume 1|year=1993|publisher=Allied Publishers|location=New Delhi|page=132|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WmZfr6ERN64C&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq=f+g+pearce+netarhat&source=web&ots=_41hcybrNw&sig=yrkaXL9olpQVj3ADZAyGgrOToDc&hl=en#v=onepage&q=f%20g%20pearce%20netarhat&f=false}}</ref><br />
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== Books ==<br />
Pearce authored numerous books and pamphlets including ''Footprints in the Sands of Time'', ''Sonnets of a Schoolmaster and other verse'', ''A round of Rajput Tales'', ''The coconut lands of southern India'' and ''The dawn of freedom''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pearce, Frederick Gordon|url=http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n89-267414|accessdate=28 January 2013}}</ref><br />
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