Who is Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott (; 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 plant-based diet. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights.

Born in Wolcott, Connecticut in 1799, Alcott had only minimal formal schooling before attempting a career as a traveling salesman. Worried that the itinerant life might have a negative impact on his soul, he turned to teaching. His innovative methods, however, were controversial, and he rarely stayed in one place very long. His most well-known teaching position was at t...
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Amos Bronson Alcott Poems

• Proem Ii
  Ah! why so brief the visit, short his stay?
  The acquaintance so surprising, and so sweet,
  Stolen is my heart, 't is journeying far away,
  With that shy stranger whom my voice did greet. ...
• Proem Iii
  Not all the brilliant beauties I have seen,
  Mid the gay splendors of some Southern hall,
  In jewelled grandeur, or in plainest mien,
  Did so my fancy and my heart enthral, ...
• Wendell Phillips
  PEOPLEâ??S ATTORNEY, servant of the Right!
  Pleader for all shades of the solar ray,
  Complexions dusky, yellow, red, or white;
  Who, in thy countryâ??s and thy timeâ??s despite, ...
• Proem
  Long left unwounded by the grisly foe,
  Who sometime pierces all with fatal shaft,
  Still on my cheek fresh youth did lively glow,
  And at his threatening arrow gaily laught; ...
• Garrison
  FREEDOMâ??S first champion in our fettered land!
  Nor politician nor base citizen
  Could gibbet thee, nor silence, nor withstand.
  Thy trenchant and emancipating pen ...

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Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
• Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
• Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
• No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

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