1. Beatrice Ensor was an English theosophical educationist, pedagogue, co-founder of the New Education Fellowship and editor of the journal Education for the New Era.
12 Facts About Beatrice Ensor
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Beatrice Ensor's father was in the shipping business and her early years were spent in Marseille and Genoa, hence her fluency in Italian and French.
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Beatrice Ensor was greatly influenced by a theosophical book that a visitor to her home had left.
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Beatrice Ensor became disenchanted with the regimented and passive teaching she saw but when she inspected a Montessori school in Cheltenham, she became very interested in the ideas of Maria Montessori whom she met and corresponded with.
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Beatrice Ensor attended a conference in East Runton in 1914 organised by the New Ideals in Education group; the topic of the conference was 'The Montessori Method in Education'.
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Beatrice Ensor worked closely for a time with George Arundale who became the President of the Theosophical Society Adyar.
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Beatrice Ensor travelled to Budapest and returned with the first party.
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Beatrice Ensor was a member of the Education Advisory Committee of the Labour Party for a short while but her utopian views clashed with those of R H Tawney and resigned her position.
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In 1925 Isabel King and Beatrice Ensor left to establish Frensham Heights, a co-educational school in Surrey, from Montessori to university entrance level, for which Mrs Edith Douglas-Hamilton provided the capital.
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Beatrice Ensor was one of an educational group that was invited to tour Poland and visited South Africa in 1927 and 1929.
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Beatrice Ensor's husband had moved to Louterwater in South Africa where he acquired a large farm in a little developed valley, recently found to be suitable for the growing of deciduous fruit.
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Beatrice Ensor was one of a group invited to lecture in Australia in 1937, where she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Western Australia, Perth.