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Hans Karl Maeder (December 29, 1909 – September 8, 1988) was an innovative educator who founded the Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and served as its director and headmaster for 23 years.〔David E. Pitt, (Hans K. Maeder, Stockbridge Founder, Dies at 78 ), ''New York Times'', September 11, 1988〕 ==Early life and career== Maeder was born in Hamburg, Germany on December 29, 1909, the third child in a prosperous family. He described his father as an authoritarian nationalist and anti-Semite who embraced Hitler's message. Maeder left home at 18, refusing to go into business as his father had wished, and deciding instead to become a teacher. Maeder, a socialist,〔(Global Thinker Benjamin Barber's Ideas on Capitalism and Conflict No Longer Seem So Academic ), ''The Washington Post'', November 6, 2001. Retrieved from Benjamin Barber's website, September 24, 2010.〕 eventually joined the anti-Nazi movement, and fled Germany in 1933 to avoid arrest. He went to Denmark, where he taught at the Udlose Boys Home, an institution for boys with problems.〔 During this time and later travels Maeder wrote for the anti-Nazi underground.〔Franklin, Rasjidah (2001), (Berta Rantz: Her life and legacy ), ''Teacher Education Quarterly'', Summer 2001〕 But in 1937, Maeder was forced to leave Denmark and subsequently traveled to Kenya, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines. Maeder arrived in Hawaii to teach in 1941,〔 but was interned as an enemy alien〔 on December 8, the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Maeder was released from an internment camp in Texas on February 23, 1943. Arriving in New York, Maeder soon obtained a position as the director of the boys' division of a YMCA in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.〔http://stockbridgeschool.org/stories/maed2.html Children Are The Same Everywhere 1945, issue of CHILDHOOD EDUCATION〕 In September 1944, Maeder took a teaching job for a year at Windsor Mountain School in Lenox, Massachusetts, several miles from the site of the future Stockbridge School. Maeder then moved to the Walden School, a private day school in Manhattan, teaching German and the history of languages and briefly serving as the school's director in 1947 and 1948. It was at Walden that he met his wife Ruth, a widow at the time, through her son David, a Walden student whom he later adopted. Maeder left Walden in 1948 to found Stockbridge School. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Maeder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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