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Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American writer, philosopher, and educator. He is best remembered for founding a short-lived and unconventional "Temple School" in Boston, as well as the utopian community known as "Fruitlands." He was also notably associated with transcendentalism, writing a series known as ...
May 23, 2018 · Amos Bronson Alcott. Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), the most brilliant and visionary American educator of his time, was also the most extreme of the New England transcendentalists. Bronson Alcott was born near Wolcott, Conn., on Nov. 29, 1799. His was an old New England family which had fallen on hard times, with the result that Alcott ...
Biography. Born in 1799 to an illiterate flax farmer in Wolcott, Connecticut, Amos Bronson Alcott was singular among the Transcendentalists in his unassailable optimism and the extent of his self-education. With the encouragement of his spirited and resourceful mother, he taught himself to read and write by forming letters in charcoal on the ...
Amos Bronson Alcott (Photograph by A.W. Hosmer) ( The Paul Brooks Collection) Born on November 29, 1799 on a farm near Wolcott, Connecticut, Amos Bronson Alcott came from humble beginnings. His father, Joseph Chatfield and his mother, Anna, had eight children, with Amos Bronson being the eldest. After Alcott’s formal education came to a halt ...
November 28, 1855. A. Bronson Alcott was born November 29, 1799. The son of a flax farmer in Wolcott, Connecticut, he taught himself to read by forming letters in charcoal on a wooden floor. Through sheer willpower and dedication to the ideal, he educated himself and guided his genius to expression as a progressive educator and leader of the ...
Ever and always a teacher, Amos Bronson Alcott began his literary career by publishing articles and books describing his teaching methods and pedagogical philosophy. He published articles in both the American Journal of Education and its successor, the American Annals of Education and Instruction . His first standalone work was a 27-page ...
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) was a philosopher, educational innovator, author, diarist, and ardent reformer who founded a short-lived utopian society, Fruitlands, and was one of the New England Transcendentalists of Concord, Massachusetts . Indeed, Alcott was a founder of American Transcendentalism, the name given to a specific type of ...
