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 Cassie Cushing, I fully agree
with you. Emma Willard is a person who made a tremendous contribution to the
women’s education. 
P.S. Seventeen children in the family… I’m shocked Oo

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 Cassie Cushing, I fully agree
with you. Emma Willard is a person who made a tremendous contribution to the
women’s education. 
P.S. Seventeen children in the family… I’m shocked Oo

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Natasha Solovyova, Ukraine

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Emma Willard House (1809) – MiddColl historical plaque

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"Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870)." Open Collections Program: Women Working,. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.

"Emma Willard Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.

"Emma Willard School." Emma Willard School. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.

"Emma Willard." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Feb. 2014. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.

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Emma Hart Willard was born on February 23, 1787 in Berlin, Connecticut. She was the sixteenth of seventeen children of Samuel Hart and Lydia Hinsdale. She grew up in a time period where only men were given a proper education and once they succeeded that, could move onto a higher education at a college or a university. Her parents saw that she was very intelligent for a girl her age and decided that she deserved just as much of an education as anyone else did. They allowed her to sit in on discussions consisting of politics, philosophy, world politics, and mathematics; these were considered to be topics that only men could study.

At the age of fifteen, Emma was enrolled in her first school but progressed rather quickly. Within a matter of only two years, she found herself teaching at a school. Two years after she began teaching for the school, she ended up taking over the academy.

In 1807, Emma decided to move away from home and go to Middlebury, Vermont. She accepted a job as a principal at the Middlebury Female Seminary, an academy made only for females. She found herself to be unimpressed by the curriculum and the material being taught at the school and wanted to make an impact on women's rights to an education and leaving this job would be the start of a new era.

Shortly after, Emma opened up her own boarding school for women only in her own home. She had the belief that women could master topics such as math and philosophy just as well as men could rather than teaching them just the basics from finishing books. This was the first step to fighting for women's higher education.

While working at the academy, Emma met her husband, John Willard. He was a twenty - eight year old physician who brought four children from his previous marriages to the new family.

John and Emma had one son, John Willard, who received the management position of the Troy Female Seminary when she decided to leave. When her first husband died in 1825, she remarried in 1838 to Christopher C. Yates but soon divorced him in 1843.

Based off of the information that I have discovered about Emma, she has helped contribute to education as a whole greatly. If Emma had not created schools for females, I do not believe that we would have the education systems that we have today. This is because the world is not always ready for change, and if someone does not make a step in some direction, then the world will never be ready for a change; it takes one person to step up. Since Emma ran female only schools, it allowed for women to learn the same things that men did and not just the basics. For instance, had she not made the move she did, I probably would not be attending a university as we speak. Had Emma's parents decided that she was not as much of an intellectual as we thought, then I am not sure where we would be as a society today.

Cassie Cushing

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While working at the academy, Emma met her husband, John Willard. He was a twenty - eight year old physician who brought four children from his previous marriages to the new family.

John and Emma had one son, John Willard, who received the management position of the Troy Female Seminary when she decided to leave.

When her first husband died in 1825, she remarried in 1838 to Christopher C. Yates but soon divorced him in 1843.

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In 1807, Willard moved out to Middlebury, Vermont and accepted a job as principal at the Middlebury Female Seminary, a female academy, which lasted for approximately two years.

She became unimpressed by the material being taught and decided to open up a boarding school for women in her own home. She believed that women could master topics like math and philosophy rather than just the teachings in finishing books. This would soon lead her to the fight for the first women's school for higher education.

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Formerly known as The Troy Feminary

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At the time, women were only allowed a basic education, but her parents saw potential. She was included in family discussions on politics, philosophy, world politics, and mathematics, which were considered topics of male study.

She was enrolled at her first school at the age of fifteen but progressed so quickly that within a matter of two years she begin teaching the school herself. Just two years after that, she took over the academy on her own.

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Emma Hart Willard was born on February 23, 1787 in Berlin, Connecticut. She was the sixteenth of seventeen children of Samuel Hart and Lydia Hinsdale.

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This is the start to my research for the educator biography.