Record of a School

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"Record of a School" was a book published anonymously in 1835, based on the journal of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. It documented the teaching methods and daily interactions at Bronson Alcott's Temple School in Boston. The book helped establish Alcott as a significant, albeit controversial, thinker in education. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an American educator and a participant in the Transcendentalist movement. She opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States in 1860. Her work emphasized the education of the young, influenced by her Transcendentalist beliefs and liberal Christianity.1

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Her Record of a School, based on her journal of Alcott’s methods and daily interactions with the children, was published anonymously in 1835 and did much to establish Alcott as a leading and controversial thinker.
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Her Record of a School, based on her journal of Alcott’s methods and daily interactions with the children, was published anonymously in 1835 and did much to establish Alcott as a leading and controversial thinker.
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