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| A. B. ALCOTT |
| (1799-1888) US educator & transcendentalist, father of Louisa May Alcott |
| �Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.� (Table Talk, 1877)
�Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.� �One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.� �Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.� �Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.� �That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.� �The less of routine, the more of life.� �The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.� �To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.� |