24 Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes Thar Are Still So Relevant
Amos Bronson Alcott was an American writer and educator, famous for his works Conversations with Children on the Gospels, Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction, Records of a School and Concord Days. Alcott was instrumental in the innovating new methods of teaching which focused on communication with students and sparing the rod. Instead of using corporal punishment as a medium of disciplining his students, he injected shame and fear among his pupils which he believed was more effective. Apart from being an active abolitionist, he was a fierce supportter of women rights and veganism. He became a prominent figure in the transcendentalism movement after his involvement with fellow lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson. Despite of all his accomplishments, his methods in teaching have been criticized as abrupt, non-lucid and erratic. Here are some of the most inspiring and enlightening quotes from this American philosopher, educationist and reformer.
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
The less of routine, the more of life.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not by my weakness.
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression
Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
The less routine the more life.
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself for wrongs real or imagined.
Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even with their titles, and wise to discern what are worth reading.
Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
