Major Leaders in Education
Reform and their Accomplishments

Ralph Waldo Emerson led a group that practiced transcendentalism, a philosophical and literary movement that focused on living an easy and simple life and honoring nature.

William Ellery Channing was a Unitarian leader preached that the purpose of Christianity was "the perfection of human nature. This led for the agreement with the Revivalists that social and individual reform were able to be accomplished and are very necessary.