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114: 150: 138: 126: 28: 102:, a vocal opponent of Transcendentalism, derided the book as one-third blasphemy, one-third obscenity, and the rest nonsense. The school was widely denounced in the press, with only a few scattered supporters, and Alcott was rejected by most public opinion. The controversy caused many parents to remove their children. 95:. Alcott's methods were not well received; many readers found his conversations on the Gospels close to blasphemous, a few brief but frank discussions with the children regarding birth and circumcision were considered obscene and a number of his ideas were denigrated as ridiculous. The influential conservative 78:
as a means of disciplining his students; instead, he offered his own hand for an offending student to strike, saying that any failing was the teacher's responsibility. The shame and guilt this method induced, he believed, was far superior to the fear instilled by corporal punishment; when he used
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As assistants in the Temple School, Alcott had two young women who have subsequently come to be considered among nineteenth-century America's most talented writers, 30-year-old Elizabeth Palmer Peabody who, in 1835, published
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and 26-year-old Margaret Fuller who was a teacher during 1836–1837; as students he had children of the Boston intellectual classes, including future writer Josiah Phillips Quincy, grandson of
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physical "correction" he required that the students be unanimously in support of its application, even including the student to be punished.
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in 1834, and featured a teaching style based on conversation. Teachers working at the school included Elizabeth Peabody and
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Alfred G. Litton, Joel Myerson. "The Temple School Journals of George and Martha Kuhn."
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Record of a School: Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture
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Josephine E. Roberts. "Elizabeth Peabody and the Temple School."
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Masonic Temple, corner Temple Place and Tremont St., Boston, 1835
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Bronson Alcott's Temple School, opened in 1834 in the former
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Alcott was fundamentally and philosophically opposed to
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Temple School, Boston (1830s)

Masonic Temple
Pendleton's Lithography
Boston
Massachusetts
Amos Bronson Alcott
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Margaret Fuller
corporal punishment
Harvard University
Josiah Quincy III
Unitarian
Andrews Norton
Masonic Temple, corner Temple Place and Tremont St., Boston, 1835
Class in session, 1837
Portrait of Bronson Alcott
Detail of 1839 map of Boston, showing Temple Place
vol.2
42°21′20.25″N 71°3′46.43″W / 42.3556250°N 71.0628972°W / 42.3556250; -71.0628972
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Schools in Boston
Former buildings and structures in Boston
1834 establishments in Massachusetts
History of Boston
19th century in Boston
1830s in the United States

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