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«A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
carcass, carcasses, corruption, decay, falls, protecting
«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.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
defends, disciple, distrust, guides, inspires, Personal self, pupils, quickening, quickens, self-distrust, The Quickening
«That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Books,
Expectation
| Keywords:
closed, closed book, expectation, Good Book, opened
«The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
defends, pupils
«One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.»
«Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
educators, observation, prime, primed
«Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Communication,
Instinct
| Keywords:
instincts, readiest, response
«Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Debate
| Keywords:
debate, feminine, masculine
«Our ideals are our better selves.»
«Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
drench, drenched, drenched in, drenches, In Dreams
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