Amos Bronson Alcott

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Name: Amos Bronson Alcott
Born: 11/29/1799
Died: 03/04/1888 (88 years old)
Occupation: Educator, Writer

Amos Bronson Alcott (/ˈɔːlkət, –kɪt/; November 29, 1799? March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a vegan diet before the term was coined. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women’s rights.

Birth Name: Amos Bronson Alcox

Alias: Amos Bronson Alcox

Birth Place: Wolcott, Connecticut, U.S.

Death Place: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Source: Wikipedia

Amos Bronson Alcott quotes :

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Our ideals are our better selves.
Amos Bronson Alcott

The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Amos Bronson Alcott