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"The two had made the school together, disciplinarian and scholar" John Andrew Rice
In 1869 while teaching at The Horner School on the outskirts of Oxford, North Carolina Sawney spoke at length with a fellow teacher about his dream of an “educational utopia.” The very next year W. H. Wilkes the town father of Culleoka, Tennessee wrote in a letter, “the school is yours.” |
Webb's future is intimately connected to the values of its original visionaries. The school supports six enduring understandings based upon these founding values. They are:
William R. Webb Jr. "Son Will" | Thompson Webb | Alla Webb | William R. "Bob" Webb III |
Progress is made only by experiment manipulated by individual initiative. In this age of transition from authority to experiment, there must be somewhere an experiment station for the children where authority in the use of tools and methods is not compulsory.
The Webb School of Bell Buckle - Preparatory Academies and Vanderbilt University
Education: The Webbs of Bell Buckle Time Magazine Sept 16, 1946
First Day of School - August 1870
Sawney's Birthday - Nov 11, 1842
John's Birthday - Nov 29, 1847
Son Will's Birthday - Apr 4, 1874
Alla's Birthday - Oct 2, 1875
Thompson's Birthday Oct 24, 1887