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- A largely self-taught man, Alcott worked as a farmer and peddler before settling into his inspiring vocation as a teacher. Alcott believed in abolishing corporal punishment in schools and worked to cultivate children’s minds, bodies, and spirits in unison, abandoning traditional exercises of rote memorization.
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Amos Bronson Alcott ( / ˈɔːlkət /; November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) 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.
Amos Bronson Alcott dedicated his life to various intellectual and social movements, including Transcendentalism, abolitionism, and education reform.
He worked odd jobs, ranging from the clockmaking business to being a traveling salesman. Alcott’s experience as a salesman provided access to the world around him. Witnessing the horrors of slavery inspired him to join the antislavery movement and to embrace other humanitarian causes.
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."
Amos Bronson Alcott was born on November 29, 1799, in Wolcott, Connecticut, and died on March 4, 1888. He was an author, teacher, conversationalist, philosopher, and outspoken advocate of educational and social reform.
Alcott’s primary work was as a teacher, not a philosopher. His close friends, including Emerson and the editor Margaret Fuller, tried to help him develop his ideas into a coherent philosophy, but Alcott’s meandering prose proved too dense even for philosophy journals.
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 pamphlet, Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction (1830).
