Amos Bronson Alcott vs. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Amos Bronson Alcott
1799 – 1888
Amos Bronson Alcott was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a plant-based diet.
"Bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772 – 1834
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.
"The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself."