Anna C. Brackett
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Excerpt from Anna C. Brackett: In Memoriam, MDCCCXXXVI MDCCCCXI; An Appreciation "Who educates a woman educates a race" are the words with which Miss Brackett opens one of her books. Anna Callander Brackett was born in Boston, May 21, 1836. She was the oldest of the five children of Samuel E. and Caroline S. Brackett and was of old New England ancestry. She attended both public and private schools in Boston, Somerville, and vicinity; among others Mr. Abbott´s famous Academy. Later she entered the State Normal School at South Framingham, Massachusetts, and was graduated from there in 1856 at the age of twenty. Miss Brackett always referred to this school in terms of highest appreciation and it was, undoubtedly, at this great state institution that she acquired that training of her extraordinarily brilliant mind, which made her so easily recognized as an authority on education in after years. Her first teaching was at East Brookfield, Massachusetts; later she became assistant at the High School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was next called to be assistant principal at her Alma Mater and remained at South Framingham in that position for two years. In 1860 she accepted the vice-principalship of the Normal School at Charleston, South Carolina, and had been there only a short time when Fort Sumter was fired upon. Miss Brackett remained calmly at her post, however, until it was not safe to stay longer; in fact, she was almost the last northerner to leave before the blockade was established. So long had she tarried that she was obliged to get north by going west. She journeyed in safety to New Orleans and up the Mississippi to St. Louis where she remained to become, at twenty-five, the first woman principal who ever presided over a high school in America. This was indeed a great honor, and it demonstrated how far in advance Miss Brackett was in matters of education. She is said to have been fifty years ahead of her day and one of the foremost women in education that our country has produced. For nine years Miss Brackett remained in St. Louis, directing the schools, and making new standards for the education of our American girls. In 1870 Miss Brackett heard that there was need in New York of another private school. She came to New York with Miss Ida M. Eliot, who had been associated with her as assistant at St. Louis, and together they established a school at Nos. 9 and 11 West Thirty-ninth Street. Over 200 girls were enrolled, from the most representative families, and for twenty-five years it was one of the leading private schools of New York City. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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