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Amos Bronson Alcott

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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The less routine the more life.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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Our ideals are our better selves.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.


— Amos Bronson Alcott


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The Alcott family put The Hillside up for rent and moved to Boston. Emerson wrote to Margaret Fuller then editor that they might "pass muster & even pass for just & great". He reflected that the event was a prophecy that he would be "tilting at the sun and always catching the fall.

Based on his ideas for human perfection Alcott founded Fruitlands a transcendentalist experiment in community living. His innovative methods however were controversial and he rarely stayed in one place very long. Nevertheless he continued focusing on educational projects and opened a new school at the end of his life in 1879.

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