New Schools Education and Radical Free Thought in Greenwich Village

New Schools Education and Radical Free Thought in Greenwich Village

From the first free circulating library in New York City to "The People's Institute," Greenwich Village is home to some of the earliest public educational institutions in New York City. The Village's pedigree as a bastion of free expression has roots in its educational institutions, which were at the epicenter of the greatest radical and progressive movements of the 19th and 20th centuries! On this tour, we'll drop by NYU, the first university in the country to allow women to study law, make our way to the Ferrer School, an Anarchist educational collective on St. Marks Place where teachers included Margaret Sanger and Jack London, see Cooper Union, open to "whatsoever things are true," and find out how opposition to the First World War (and fussy uptown Academia) created the New School.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Greenwich Village, 14th Street and West of Broadway, New York City, NY

We'll Start in front of the New School, which has been pioneering new forms of learning and thinking for nearly a century, make our way to the New York Studio School, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's epicenter of American Art, sit in the courtyard at NYU Law School, find out how the Little Red School House invented the field trip, see what Judson Church has to do with modern dance, find out how actors saved the city's original library and turned it into a theater, and figure out why Abraham Lincoln, Emma Goldman and W. E. B Du Bois all ended up at Cooper Union!

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: New York University, 70 Washington Sq S, New York City, NY 10012-1019

On this tour, we'll drop by NYU, the first university in the country to allow women to study law, make our way to the Ferrer School, an Anarchist educational collective on St. Marks Place where teachers included Margaret Sanger and Jack London, see Cooper Union, open to "whatsoever things are true," and find out how opposition to the First World War (and fussy uptown Academia) created the New School.

Duration: 1 hour