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Amos Bronson Alcott [1799-1888] American

Rank: 102
Educator, Teacher

Amos Bronson Alcott 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.

Age, Teacher, Communication, Dreams, Education, Experience, Failure, Friendship, Government, Home, Inspirational, Life, Men, Strength, Success

Quote	Tags	Rank
The less routine the more life.	Life	101
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.	Teacher	102
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.	Age	103
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.	Education, Experience	104
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.	Dreams	105
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.	Success	106
Our ideals are our better selves.	Inspirational	107
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.	Strength	108
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.	Friendship	109
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.	Teacher	110
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.	Men	111
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.		112
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.	Government	113
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.	Home	114
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.		115
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.	Failure	116
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.		117
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.		118
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.	Age	119
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.	Communication	120
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.		121
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.		122
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.		123

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