Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Born on May 25, came from a long line of
merchants on his mother’s side and preachers on his father’s side. It is
possibly this unique conglomeration of life experiences that lead Emerson
to be possibly one of the greatest and most influential essayists and
thinkers of all time. Emerson was ta ....
Middle of paper
.... intelligence
in that direction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was always placed in the best scholastic
environment available to him, which is ironic because later Emerson says
education comes from personal experience rather than what a text book says.
After several independent private schools and college prepatory schools,
Emerson entered Harvard. Emerson later says of Harvard, “ It has done
little for me on the whole.” If this is true at least Harvard is where he
says his, “...mind commenced its ....
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