Jane Addams

of the Hull House

•Idealistic

•Optimistic

•Pragmatic

“Ignorance, disease, and crime were a result of

economic desperation and not a result of some moral flaw in the character of the new immigrants…Access to opportunity was the key to successful participation in a democratic, self-governing

society.”(Luft, n.d.)

•Self respect

•Self reliance

•Respect of all people

Dignity Pride Honor

“[T]he ultimate aim [of education] is to modify

the character and conduct of the

individual, and to harmonize and adjust

his activities.”(Addams, n.d.)CHILD-CENTERED

PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION

Addams wanted to give “children [the very clear

message] that poverty [did] not translate to pity.”

(Week 2: Poverty and Jane Addams, 1998)

John Dewey

Abraham Lincoln

“Abraham Lincoln…had never repudiated the customs of his

forbears, but had retained and utilized them.”

(Anticaglia, 1975)

Leo Tolstoy

http://www.hullhouse.org

(see handout)

Jane Addams ElementarySchool

Jane Addams Middle School

Jane Addams School of Social Work

Jane Addams

of

Hull House

and the

Women’s International League

of

Peace and Freedom