RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Allen School: An Alternative Nineteenth-Century Education, 1818-1852
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 565
OP 576
DO 10.17763/haer.51.4.9288115365732772
VO 51
IS 4
A1 Albert, Judith Strong
YR 1981
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/51/4/565.abstract
AB In this account of an experiment in early American education, Judith Strong Albert draws upon the 1818 to 1852 journals of a distinguished New England teacher, Lucy Clark Ware Allen. Ms. Albert describes a nineteenth-century parsonage school that stressed the "innate goodness" of a child's nature and placed emphasis on practice and experience in education. She contrasts the educational philosophy held by Joseph and Lucy Allen, founders of the Allen School of Northborough, Massachusetts, with the views of the leading educational idealist of that era, Bronson Alcott, and provides an illuminating study of an early model in alternative education.