Caroline Pratt
Educator, Inventor
1867 – 1954
Who was Caroline Pratt?
Caroline Pratt was an American social thinker and progressive educational reformer whose ideas were influential in educational reform, policy, and practice.
Pratt is known as the founder of City and Country School in the Greenwich Village section of the borough of Manhattan in New York City; the inventor of unit blocks; and as the author of I Learn from Children, an autobiographical account of her life and educational experiments, philosophies and practices. Pratt's specific style of progressive education, focused on first-hand experiences, open-ended materials, and social studies, has been cited and described by figures as noted as John Dewey and the architect and playground designer David Rockwell. Her original vision endures at City and Country School, which she founded in 1914 in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.
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