Temple School (Massachusetts)

Featured a teaching style “based on conversation.”

School was opened in a “former” Free Masonry Masonic Temple.

Taught students of Bostons “intellectual class”

Alcott's methods were not well received; many readers found his conversations on the Gospels close to blasphemous, a few brief but frank discussions with the children regarding birth and circumcision were considered obscene and a number of his ideas were denigrated as ridiculous.