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Elizabeth Peabody

Elizabeth Peabody
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten (d. 1894)

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.

16 May 1804

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