“Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.”
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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, advocated a plant-based diet. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights.
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“Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.”
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“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.”
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“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
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“Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.”
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“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
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“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.”
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“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.”
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“Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.”
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“That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.”
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“First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.”
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“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.”
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“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”
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“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”
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