Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Born: November 29, 1799
Died: March 4, 1888 (aged 88)
Bio: Amos Bronson Alcott 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.
Known for:
- Concord Days (1872)
- Conversations With Children on the Gospel (1836)
- Sonnets And Canzonets (1882)
- Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882)
Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes