Download or read book Educating the Respectable written by Professor W E Marsden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under its first headmaster, W.B. Adams, Fleet Road Board School was an outstanding success, described by a contemporary journal as the finest elementary school in Europe.' This study explains the school's success using contemporary sources, and newspapers and the oral evidence of ex-pupils.