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一位有着大胆想法的勇敢女性改变了教育.

Emma Hart Willard, our founder, was a lifelong advocate 和 champion for women's education. Gender roles were firmly entrenched in the post-Revolutionary War society of America in her youth, 而是艾玛·威拉德的父亲, 塞缪尔·哈特, 鼓励她追求学术和哲学. 13岁的时候, she taught herself geometry 和 had enrolled in the Berlin Academy in Connecticut, where she attended for two years before becoming an instructor there. At the age of 19, she was offered a summer teaching job at a girls' school in Middlebury, 佛蒙特州.

然而, her experience at these "finishing schools" for young women—focused so intently on preparing them for the roles 和 responsibilities society imposed on them at the time—inspired her to chart a new course. In 1814, just 26 years old 和 bearing a financial burden from her father's passing 和 outst和ing debts, Emma Willard opened a new kind of boarding school for intellectually curious women out of her home in Middlebury. This "Middlebury Female Seminary" operated out of Madame Willard's living room for five years, a fledgling foundation for what would become a transformational educational institution.

In 1819, 基于她经营家庭神学院的经验, Emma Willard wrote "A Plan for Improving Female Education," a proposal addressed to the 纽约 State Legislature which argued a practically unheard of concept at that time: young women needed access to the same subjects of learning as young men. 然而,, her direct experience as both a student 和 an 教育家 in other female academies lent credence to her idea 和 soon some of the most influential members of early American society had joined her cause, 包括约翰·亚当斯, 托马斯·杰斐逊, 和, 最重要的是, 纽约州州长德威特·克林顿.

With stalwart support from Governor Clinton 和 纽约 residents, Emma Willard relocated her seminary first to the town of Waterford, 纽约和, in 1821, ultimately established the 特洛伊 Female Seminary in the growing industrial 和 trade center of 特洛伊, 纽约. Madame Willard remained head of the Seminary until 1838 和 passed in 1870, 看到她的梦想实现了. In 1895, the Seminary was renamed The 十大电子游戏平台 For 女孩 和 in 1910 work began on a new, 在艾达山上扩建了校园，包括宿舍, 体育馆和高耸的石塔. 在“艾达之巅”，全球电子游戏平台大全还在, carrying on the enduring legacy 和 vitality of Emma Hart Willard's vision into this third century of operation.

出身卑微, this institution has assumed a place at the forefront of innovation in American education 和 the women's empowerment movement around the world. Emma Hart Willard’s ideals as a young woman led to a storied tradition we celebrate to this day at 十大电子游戏平台.