Abstract

As an avid advocator of education reform in the 1850s, Emerson was long neglected in the history of American educational thought. This paper, through the investigation from four aspects, namely the Transcendental Educational Thought, the Puritanical Educational Thought, the Romantic Educational Thought, and the Confucian’s Educational Thought, attempts to figure out the cultural background of Emerson’s education thought, tries to work out the connections between his ideas and his contemporaries, such as Thoreau, Fuller, and Alcott, and points out the significant role it plays in the history of American education thought up to day.

Highlights

  • Ever since President Thomas Jefferson advocated the public education movements in the 1800s, New England has led the nation in its response

  • As an avid advocator of education reform in the 1850s, Emerson was long neglected in the history of American educational thought

  • This paper, through the investigation from four aspects, namely the Transcendental Educational Thought, the Puritanical Educational Thought, the Romantic Educational Thought, and the Confucian’s Educational Thought, attempts to figure out the cultural background of Emerson’s education thought, tries to work out the connections between his ideas and his contemporaries, such as Thoreau, Fuller, and Alcott, and points out the significant role it plays in the history of American education thought up to day

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Introduction

Ever since President Thomas Jefferson advocated the public education movements in the 1800s, New England has led the nation in its response. In Franklin’s view, talents cultivated under this new type of educational thought was conducive to developing capitalism.

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