Marion McCarrell Scott was an American

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 educator and government advisor in Meiji period

Meiji period

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 Japan

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Biography

Scott was born in Virginia

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, and graduated from the University of Virginia

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 during the American Civil War

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. After the war, he moved to California

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, were he worked as a teacher, and where he met Mori Arinori

Mori Arinori

Viscount was a Meiji period Japanese statesman, diplomat and founder of Japan's modern educational system.-Early life:Mori was born in the Satsuma domain from a samurai family, and educated in the Kaisenjo School for Western Learning run by the Satsuma domain...

, an envoy from the Meiji government of Japan, who offered him a post in Japan as a foreign advisor. Scott arrived in Tokyo in 1871, and taught English language

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 at the Daigaku Nankō, the predecessor to Tokyo Imperial University, and later at Tokyo University of Education, where he developed a training curriculum for Japanese teachers based on western concepts of pedagogy

Pedagogy

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 including the theories of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

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. He also worked with the Ministry of Education to develop the state school system which dominated education in the Empire of Japan. After the end of his contract, he departed Japan in 1881. Scott later lived in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Kingdom of Hawaii

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, where he again worked as a teacher. He maintained his contacts in Japan via the Japanese community in Hawaii.