Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Connecticut in 1799, the son of a poor farmer, had little schooling and travelled the South as a pedlar before becoming a schoolteacher. He founded a school in Boston where he taught through conversation and refused corporal punishment; it closed after the controversy provoked by his methods, and he later admitted a Black pupil to another school, which in turn closed. Always poor or in debt, he was helped by his friends and then by his daughter Louisa May, and in 1879 he opened a school of philosophy in Concord. He died in Boston in 1888.

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