Emma Willard - Pioneer Educator of American Women - Bok av Alma Lutz - Inbunden
For the 150th anniversary of the Emma Willard School, its founder receives her biographical due as the most effective educational iconoclast in the then highly dubious area of female academe. Emma Willard rescued the young women of the early nineteenth century from their needlework and proved, through her diligent example, that geography, history, and even mathematics were not beyond their grasp. In her school, the Troy Female Seminary, she combined highly moral and ladylike virtues with the new..