ALCOTT, Amos Bronson [1799-1888] -- American trancendentalist, writer and educator

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His ideas on religion and teaching shocked his contemporaries, based as they were on learning through pleasure and imagination rather than discipline. He applied these principles in his Boston "infant school", where he attempted to develop mind and moral sense through a question-and-answer method. MWBD NCCN

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1818-1823	Itinerant peddler in VA and NC
1823-1827	Teacher in several small CT towns
1828-1830	Teaching in Boston
1830	Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction
1831-1833	Teaching in Germantown, PA.
1834-1839	Founded and operated an unorthodox Temple school, Boston
1835	Record of a School
1836	The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture
1836-1837	Conversations with Children on the Gospels
1839	His school failed through disaproval of the parents, brought on by the two works (Conversations... and Record...) and by his refusal to dismiss a Negro pupil
1844	Established a cooperative community (Fruitlands) near Harvard, MA. Abandoned the next year
1853-59	Absorbed in transcendental philosophy, lectured at intervals
1859	Appointed superintendant of schools at Concord, MA
1865	Ralph Waldo Emerson
1868	Poverty relieved by daughter Louisa's publication of Little Women
1872	Concord Days
1879-88	Started and operated Concord Summer School of Philosophy and Literature
1881-87	New Connecticut

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  - Amos Bronson Alcott: Fruitlands Fruitlands: a utopian community he had cofounded to enable himself and his followers to create an example of perfect Transcendental living.
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