Brook Farm (Institute of Agriculture and Education)
- Brook Farm (Institute of Agriculture and Education)
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Short-lived utopian experiment in communal living (1841–47) in West Roxbury, Mass.
(near Boston), founded by George Ripley. The best known of the many utopian communities organized in the U.S. in the mid-19th century, Brook Farm was to combine the thinker and the worker, to guarantee the greatest mental freedom, and to prepare a society of liberal, cultivated persons whose lives would be more wholesome and simpler than they could be amid the pressure of competitive institutions. It is remembered for the distinguished literary figures and intellectual leaders associated with it, including Charles A. Dana,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Horace Greeley, James Russell Lowell,
John Greenleaf Whittier, and
Ralph Waldo Emerson (though not all of them were actual members). It was also noted for the modern educational theory of its excellent school. See also
Oneida Community.
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Universalium.
2010.
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Brook Farm — a farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, where an experimental cooperative community was established from 1841 to 1847. * * * ▪ communal experiment, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States formally The Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and… … Universalium
Brook Farm — [ brʊk fɑːm], Institute of Agriculture and Education [ ɪnstɪtjuːt ɔv ægrɪkʌltʃə ænd edju keɪʃn], sozialutopische Kommune bei West Roxbury in der Nähe von Boston (Massachusetts), USA, 1841 von den Transzendentalisten unter G. Ripley gegründet.… … Universal-Lexikon
education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… … Universalium
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Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences — NYS College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Established 1874 Type Statutory Dean Kathryn J. Boor … Wikipedia
Брукфарм — (англ. Brook Farm, известна также как Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education или Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education) колония американских социалистов утопистов, существовавшая близ Бостона в 1841 1846 … Википедия
