The Humanitarian School ("the Hum") was a school founded in 1903 by Jacob van Rees in the spirit of the Rein Life Movement. Van Rees made his Laren villa available for teaching, and for teachers' accommodation, and escaped if there was a shortage of money.
At the school, the ideals of humanism were central. Self-employment, as propagated by Lev Tolstoj and Ellen Key, also played an important role. The school fees were raised to the parents' capacity. In 1910 the school had 64 pupils. Educational ambassador Jan Ligthart was a consultant at the school. It was "one of the few schools in which its principles of didactics of" business education "were applied." .
The first school teacher of the school was Marie Calisch. The later writer Cor Bruijn was one of the most important teachers. From 1906 he was head teacher until he left for the Hilversum School Association in 1916. The school was further educated by: Dirk Daalder, Deutman-De Meijer, Annie van Hattum, Bertha Kofman, Nelly Korver, Mina Telders, Tjitte Wouters, Gerda Wouters-ter Haar and Betsy van Zutphen. They usually did not receive a salary, but only cost and accommodation.
The school was initially located in a room in the Van Rees villa. In 1923, architect Henri van Anrooy designed a school building for the Humanitarian School. Jobs Wertheim made a wall relief for the building.
In 1941, the school was transformed into the Larense Montessori school. The ideas of Van Rees and Bruijn were continued by Suus Freudenthal-Lutter. She published a study in the 1950s on the Humanitarian School and its contribution by Cor Bruijn. Externe link
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