Buisson helped create France's system of universal, secular primary education in the 1880's, and was also involved prominently in many pacifist organizations, notably des Droits de l'Homme (League for Human Rights).
Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (December 20, 1841-February 16, 1932), «the world's most persistent pacifist», was born in Paris, the son of a Protestant judge of the St.-Étienne Tribunal.
Buisson attended the Collège d'Argentan and the Lycée St.-Étienne but left school at the age of sixteen to help support the family when his father died.
Buisson, Ferdinand, and Frederic E. Farrington, eds., French Educational Ideals of Today: An Anthology of the Molders of French Educational Thought of the Present.
FERDINANDBUISSON (1841-), French educationalist, was born at Paris on the 10th of December 1841.
His appointment was, however, strongly opposed by the bishop of Orleans (who saw danger to clerical influence over the schools), and the nomination was cancelled.
He was appointed secretary of the statistical commission on primary education, and sent as a delegate to the Vienna exhibition of 1873, and the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876.
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