Frances Bentley Teacher

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, education was a feminized profession but a masculinized field of philosophy. Men wrote the theories; women practiced them. Bentley was a practitioner, not a prolific writer. She published a few articles in The School Journal and Primary Education , but no magnum opus. She was too busy teaching.

Frances Bentley had always known that she wanted to be a teacher. As a child, she would spend hours playing "school" with her siblings, creating lesson plans and grading imaginary papers. So, when she graduated from college with a degree in education, she was thrilled to land a job at her alma mater, Oakdale Elementary. frances bentley teacher