Elizabeth Harrison

About Elizabeth Harrison

Birth Day: September 1, 1849
Birth Place: Kentucky
Birth Sign: Virgo

Elizabeth Harrison Net Worth

Elizabeth Harrison net worth and salary: Elizabeth Harrison is a Teacher who has a net worth of $16 Million. Elizabeth Harrison was born in in September 1, 1849. Remembered best as the founder of the Chicago Kindergarten Training School (now National Louis University), this pioneer of early childhood education penned such books as Some Silent Teachers, Montessori and the Kindergarten, and A Study of Child Nature.
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💰Elizabeth Harrison Net worth: $16 Million (Updated at 15 March 2019)

About

Remembered best as the founder of the Chicago Kindergarten Training School (now National Louis University), this pioneer of early childhood education penned such books as Some Silent Teachers, Montessori and the Kindergarten, and A Study of Child Nature.

Before Fame

Inspired by the Chicago-based kindergarten movement of the late Nineteenth Century, she took education classes in New York and St. Louis before opening her famous teacher training institute in Chicago.

Trivia

She initiated an education conference series that was the precursor to the National Parent Teachers Association. Her memoir, Sketches Along Life's Road, was published three years after her death.

Family Life

A native of Athens, Kentucky, she later settled in Chicago, Illinois. She died in San Antonio, Texas at the age of seventy-eight.

Associated With

She was a friend and contemporary of social work pioneer Jane Addams.