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Educator, author, editor, and philosopher.
Harris was an educator and philosopher. He was superintendent of schools in St. Louis, Mo. (1867-1880) and U.S. Commissioner of Education (1889-1906). He founded the Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1867 and was the leading exponent of Hegelianism in American philosophy.
American philosopher and educator.
Philosopher and educator. Born Sept. 10, 1835, near North Killingly, Conn.; died Nov. 5, 1909, in Providence, R.I. Resident of Concord, Mass., 1880-1889. Began teaching in St. Louis public schools in 1857. Became Assistant Superintendent of Schools in St. Louis in 1866, Superintendent in 1868. Student and scholar of German philosophy, particularly of Hegel. Founded Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1867. In 1880, resigned position in St. Louis to assist Bronson Alcott and F.B. Sanborn in establishing Concord School of Philosophy. In 1889, accepted position of.
(Cont.) United States Commissioner of Education; resigned in 1906. Assistant editor of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia; editor of Appleton's International Education Series. Writings include: Introduction to the Study of Philosophy (1889); The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia (1889); Hegel's Logic: A Book on the Genesis of the Categories of the Mind (1890); The Psychologic Foundations of Education (1898).
Philosopher and educator. Born Sept. 10, 1835, near North Killingly, Conn.; died Nov. 5, 1909, in Providence, R.I. Resident of Concord, Mass., 1880-1889. Began teaching in St. Louis Public Schools in 1857. Became Assistant Superintendent of Schools in St. Louis in 1866, Superintendent in 1868. Student and scholar of German philosophy, particularly of Hegel. Founded Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1867. In 1880, resigned position in St. Louis to assist A. Bronson Alcott and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn in running the Concord School of Philosophy.
(Cont.) Founded in Concord, Mass., by educator, philosopher, mystic, lecturer, poet, Transcendentalist, and reformer Alcott, the Concord School of Philosophy opened in 1879. It consisted of a yearly summer session of lectures primarily on literature, education, philosophy, and spiritualism. Lecturers included Alcott, Harris, Sanborn, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ednah D. Cheney, H.K. Jones, Julia Ward Howe, T.W. Higginson, and others. The first session of the school was held in the Orchard House (the Alcott home). "Hillside Chapel" lecture hall for school.
(Cont.) was built through a gift from Elizabeth Thompson. The final session was held in 1888, (year of Alcott's death). In 1889, Harris accepted position of United States Commissioner of Education; resigned 1906. Assistant editor, Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia; editor, Appleton's International Education Series. Writings include: Introduction to the Study of Philosophy (1889); The Spiritual Sense of Dante's Divina Commedia (1889); Hegel's Logic: A Book on the Genesis of the Categories of the Mind (1890); The Psychologic Foundations of Education (1898).
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