Amos Bronson Alcott

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'