LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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They are losing pupils.
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They can’t pay the rent.
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The licenses were revoked.
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They lost their passion for teaching.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Indeed, like so many notable Americans across time, Thoreau loved education and hated school. Education was the stuff of real life: energy, emotion, experience. But he saw established schools as merely a pale imitation, a set of rote exercises that alienated children from the world instead of engaging them in it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thoreau remarks that his reasons for leaving Walden Pond are as good as his reasons for going: he has other lives to live, and has changes to experience.
Detailed explanation-3: -January 23-January 23, 2020. In 1846, the essayist, philosopher, abolitionist, and naturalist Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail after refusing to pay tax money that would support the war President James Polk singlehandedly waged against Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -On this day in 1846, Henry David Thoreau left his cabin at Walden Pond for a brief walk into town and ended up in the Concord jail for refusing to pay his poll tax.