Alcott believed that education is about cultivating the inner life. His ideas still invite us to think about what it truly means to grow, to question, and to learn.

#Philosophy #Transcendentalism #AmosBronsonAlcott

"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."

✒ #AmosBronsonAlcott, American reformer, philosopher and poet, #DOTD 4 March 1888. #Poetry #Philosophy

Happy bday 226, #AmosBronsonAlcott. "So Speech represents the flowing essence as sensitive, transitive; the word signifying what we make it at the moment of using, but needing life's rounded experiences to unfold its manifold senses and shades of meaning." #philosophy buff.ly/yTPtlaD

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

Poems: mypoeticside.com/poets/amos-b...

✒ #AmosBronsonAlcott, American educator and poet ("Concord Days"), was #BOTD 29 November 1799. #Poetry #Literature

"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."

✒ #AmosBronsonAlcott, American reformer, philosopher and poet, #DOTD 4 March 1888. #Poetry #Philosophy

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”

Poems: mypoeticside.com/poets/amos-b...

✒ #AmosBronsonAlcott, American educator and poet ("Concord Days"), was #BOTD 29 November 1799. #Poetry #Literature

Wer zu den Instinkten spricht, spricht zum Innersten der Menschheit und findet die klarste Antwort. #AmosBronsonAlcott