Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.” — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The best teachers don't allow their own personal views to influence their teaching. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles.… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Education is that process by which thought is opened out of the soul, and, associated with outward . . . things, is… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
“Concord is a classic land. The names of Emerson and Thoreau and Channing and Hawthorne are associated with the fields and forests and lakes… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
“Success is sweeter and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.” — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies! — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share
