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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. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end ...
- Amos Bronson Alcox, November 29, 1799, Wolcott, Connecticut, U.S.
- March 4, 1888 (aged 88), Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Feb 29, 2024 · Bronson Alcott (born Nov. 29, 1799, Wolcott, Conn., U.S.—died March 4, 1888, Concord, Mass.) was an American philosopher, teacher, reformer, and member of the New England Transcendentalist group. The home of Bronson Alcott and his family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott, in Concord, Massachusetts, wood engraving, 1875. The self ...
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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. The son of a flax farmer, Alcott taught himself to read by forming letters in charcoal on a wooden floor.
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Amos Bronson Alcott dedicated his life to various intellectual and social movements, including Transcendentalism, abolitionism, and education reform. Amos Bronson Alcott spent his early years in rural west-central Connecticut with his parents and seven siblings. 1 As a young child, he discovered a love for reading which likely influenced his ...
A. Bronson Alcott. In Transcendentalism in New England, Octavius Brooks Frothingham affirms: “If among the representatives of spiritual philosophy, the first place belongs to Emerson, the second must be assigned to Mr. Amos Bronson Alcott”-whom he calls “the Mystic.”. Born on a rocky farm near Wolcott, Connecticut, Alcott essentially ...
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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 ...
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. Though a poor man, he provided for his family as best he could. Though deprived of his ...
