Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes about Education

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Inspirational, Education, Teacher

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Education, Teacher, Teaching

"Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Education, Mind, Privilege

Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”