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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. |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nEver since President Thomas Jefferson advocated the public education movements in the 1800s, New England has led the nation in its response. After the 1830s and 1840s, Horace Mann, a pioneer of American educational reform, established the common schools in Massachusetts, which relied on public taxes and was open to all the people without denomination. Other education and training institutions, such as academies, public schools and workshops, have sprung up and created new educational atmosphere in England. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great advocate of this movement. Martin Bickman, a prominent contemporary American scholar, argued that Emerson, along with Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau and others, created a new education tradition of active learning in American education, which was inherited by John Dewey (Bickman,2003) .  \nHowever, 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  \nconnections 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.  \nTRANSCENDENTAL EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT  \nTranscendentalists advocate that people should have a higher and broader spiritual pursuit on the basis of material life. In his speech “The Transcendentalist,” Emerson once said,“an improvement in dress, or in dentistry, a new house or a larger business...soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded (Porte, 1993), but one’s spiritual pursuit will stay, which is heavily linked with education.  \nAs we all know, Emerson’s thoughts are very complicated. His Transcendentalism philosophy is a mixture of German classical philosophy, Anglo-French Romanticism and Oriental Mysticism. He has persevered in academic research all the year round, while his personal life can also be called a moral model. Emerson himself, who has been followed by generations of young people, deserved tobe among the “Representative Men”, who he praised for changing the course of history. Through his effort, the mysterious Transcendentalism philosophy and t","cbCaihmun27I8jGE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihmun27I8jGE","pdf",120998,"English","# Introduction\n## Transcendental Educational Thought\n## Puritanical Educational Thought\n## Romantic Educational Thought\n## Confucian’s Educational Thought","[{\"question\":\"Which educational traditions does the paper use to analyze Emerson’s educational thought?\",\"answer\":\"It investigates Emerson’s educational thought through four aspects: Transcendental educational thought, Puritanical educational thought, Romantic educational thought, and Confucian’s educational thought.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the study aim to clarify about Emerson’s ideas and historical context?\",\"answer\":\"It seeks to determine the cultural background of Emerson’s educational ideas and explain connections with contemporaries such as Thoreau, Fuller, and Alcott.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper claim Emerson’s role matters in the history of American education thought?\",\"answer\":\"It points out the significant role Emerson’s education thinking plays in shaping American educational thought up to the present.\"}]","Emerson’s Educational Thought - A Survey into the Cultural Background - Article 11 Issue 1 | PDF",1792068576]