Education+and+Religious+Beliefs

I. Education a. When she was 10 she went to Amherst Academy and was taught by Edward Hitchcock b. She went to mount holyoke female seminary c. a keen artist and accomplished musician along with her artistic ability d. Emily was a dazzling student e. studied classic literature, Virgil and Latin, Mathematics, history, and botany

II. Religion a. she was Calvinist which they had to choose to be saved and Emily decided not to be saved b. Emerson opened her spiritual ideas beyond the strict religion of Calvinism c. Unorthodox beliefs and often doubted her own convictions