Pauline Agassiz Shaw

• Swiss

• Swiss-American

Pauline Agassiz Shaw was a Swiss-American educator and social worker. - AsNotedIn

In deciding the education of her own children Mrs Shaw moved in almost untrodden and pioneer paths of teaching. With her broad mind and wide outlook the next step was to consider thoughtfully how the facilities at their command met the needs of the less fortunate children. She found their curriculum inadequate, and ill fitted to prepare them for the highest citizenship. Education to them was a meaningless drill, bearing no relation to real life ... with full comprehension of and with no criticisms for the existing systems, she understood that educational experiments are the function of private enterprise, rather than of public institution ... this experimental work appealed strongly to Mrs Shaw and for thirty-five years she was the mainspring of this work at North Bennet Street.George C Greener, - Director of the North Bennet Street Industrial School

Lineage

• Father Louis Agassiz

• Daughter: Marian Shaw McKean Haughton
• Son: Robert Gould Shaw II