George H. Richmond

George H. Richmond (1944–2004) was an American educator who introduced the concept of the MicroSociety to American primary education.

Richmond was a painter as with ease as an educator. He was raised by a single mom in Manhattan's Lower East Side. He started teaching at a Brooklyn elementary theoretical in 1967, and was a Yale graduate. As a rookie teacher, he coined the term "microsociety," and created the first microsociety in his classroom in 1967 to lawsuit students' lack of combination in the learning curriculum. A microsociety learning character enables students to apply classroom knowledge to real world settings, for example, starting a business, making laws, and paying bills, etc. Richmond was invited to attend Harvard for his doctorate. His thesis, The MicroSociety School: A Real World in Miniature was published by Harpers & Row in 1973.

In 1984, Richmond met his wife Carolynn King, a Harvard and Villanova graduate with liberal degrees in education and law. She researched and found microsocieties were enthusiastic in various schools across the country. Richmond and King continued to manufacture the model and sought attain opportunities to hold their efforts. George Richmond fell sick with Parkinson's disease. Carolynn King Richmond left her performance practice to run The MicroSociety School Consortium in 1991, and together they wrote and published the 500 page MicroSociety Handbook.

George Richmond continued to write and paint despite the encroachment of Parkinson's Disease, and in 2004 published a hoard of poetry illustrated considering his paintings, entitled, The Economics of Love. In 2004 George Richmond died of complications from cancer.