Alexander L. Wade (February 1, 1832 – May 2, 1904) was an American educator.
He developed a system of grade promotional exams and graduations for West Virginia schools that allowed rural children to participate more efficiently. He wrote and spoke on this educational system, and the system was adopted widely in the United States. His book "A Graduating System for Country Schools," was published in 1881.
The Alexander Wade House in Morgantown, West Virginia was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark due to the significance of his work.,
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“We need the tonic of wildness,—to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)