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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.
Amos Bronson Alcott. Boston African American National Historic Site, Minute Man National Historical Park. Bronson Alcott: educator, abolitionist, reformer, Transcendentalist. University of Virginia. Quick Facts. Significance: Educator, Abolitionist, Transcendentalist, Father of author Louisa May Alcott. Place of Birth: Spindle Hill, Connecticut.
While being praised as one of the major influences in Transcendentalism, Alcott is also known for his unconventional teaching fundamentals, his experimental utopia Fruitlands, and founding the successful Concord School of Philosophy.
May 23, 2018 · Born November 29, 1799, in Wolcott, Connecticut, Amos Bronson Alcott (known as Bronson) was an educator, author, child psychologist, reformer, self-styled conversationalist, lecturer, and transcendental philosopher. He formulated an innovative approach to education and revised traditional assumptions about childhood.
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 (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.
Amos Bronson Alcott. Reformer, philosopher, writer, visionary, teacher. From the 1840s to the 1880s, in Concord, Massachusetts, there lived an extraordinary man. He left his mark on all whom he touched, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
