Early Life for Theodore Parker.

Theodore Parker had excelled in academics, and was accepted into Harvard University. But with this, he couldn't afford tuition, so he lived, studied, and worked on his fathers farm, and only saw his classmates when exams were happening. He also received an honorary masters degree later in his life.

He also conducted at a Watertown, MA academy.

Harvard University.

In his teenage years, he was considered "raw, rough, emotional and poetic, sincere, arch, roguish, volatile, witty, and quick."