costly‚ but bad teachers cost more. -Bob Talbert • The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. -Amos Bronson Alcott • Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. -Eugene P. Bertin • The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The
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His speeches also later inspired Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. Amos Bronson Alcott‚ the founder of the Concord School of Philosophy and the father of writer‚ Louisa Alcott who wrote Little Women. Frederic Henry Hedge‚ the founder of the Transcendentalist Club. Ralph Emerson was known as the father of the philosophical movement. He was also the writer of Self-Reliance
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century. These women expressed their inner most thoughts and ideas through their writings. They helped to change society‚ perhaps without knowing it‚ through poetry‚ novels‚ and articles. Emily Dickinson‚ Harriet Jacobs‚ Kate Chopin‚ Louisa May Alcott‚ and Elizabeth Oakes Smith are the best-known controversial and expressive women authors of their time. On December 10‚ 1830 a poet was born. When Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst‚ Massachusetts‚ no one knew that she was to become the most well
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directed by Amy Heckerling‚ deviates drastically from the norm‚ as the film is not a period piece. While Emma is set in the early nineteenth century in the country village of Highbury‚ sixteen miles out of London‚ England‚ Clueless is set in Bronson Alcott High School almost two hundred years later‚ in the late twentieth century. Despite the significantly different geographical and historical setting and the diverse social values‚ lifestyles‚ and issues than those depicted in Emma‚ Amy Heckerling’s
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"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake‚ and so earn some right to rejoice when victory is won." Louisa May Alcott wrote many inspirational novels that explain her personality and her hardships in life. Her writing supported her family‚ no matter where she was. When Alcott died‚ her older sister was left and still received the money from her sister’s still selling books. Alcott’s books are still being sold today‚ though they may be hard to
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He spent his life in voluntary poverty‚ enthralled by the study of nature. Two years‚ in the prime of his life‚ were spent living in a shack in the woods near a pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David Thoreau did‚ and he enjoyed it. Who was Henry David Thoreau‚ what did he do‚ and what did others think of his work? Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord‚ Massachusetts on July 12‚ 1817 ("Thoreau" 96)‚ on his grandmother’s farm. Thoreau‚ who was of French-Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker
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contributed to the first generation of great American literature. Critics consider the shorter work of Herman Melville‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ and Lydia Maria Child‚ as well as the posthumously published sensational thrillers of Louisa May Alcott‚ as representative of American Renaissance short fiction. These authors viewed the short story or novella as a viable form in which to produce parables that explored literary and political concerns. Critics regard some of the short fiction produced
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“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson summarizes almost perfectly the Transcendentalist movement‚ for which he was the central guiding figure. Transcendentalism is a literary‚ spiritual‚ and social revolution based on the ideals of self-reliance‚ self-admiration‚ determination‚ and a loving connection with and a deep respect for nature and all its inhabitants. There were many other extremely influential and recognizable
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but bad teachers cost more. --Bob Talbert * The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. --Amos Bronson Alcott * Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. --Eugene P. Bertin * The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The
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inner principles” (Fuller pg. 44) to make a mark in history. Sanborn response to the essay was to take action and in 1851‚ attending Harvard‚ he decided to become a writer. In the beginning‚ he wrote articles about worshipful friendship. Before long‚ Alcott and
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