While many of Alcott's ideas continue to be perceived as being on the liberal / radical edge, they are still common themes in society, including vegetarian / veganism, sustainable living, and temperance / self-control.

From the other perspective, Alcott's unique teaching ideas created an environment which produced two famous daughters in different fields, in a time when women were not commonly encouraged to have independent careers.

As usual, Alcott's methods were controversial ; a former student later referred to him as " the most eccentric man who ever took on himself to train and form the youthful mind.

Alcott's plan was to develop self-instruction on the basis of self-analysis, with an emphasis on conversation and questioning rather than lecturing and drill, which were prevalent in the U. S. classrooms of the time.

Alcott's methods were not well received ; many found his conversations on the Gospels close to blasphemous.

Alcott's so-called " Orphic Sayings " were widely mocked for being silly and unintelligible ; Fuller herself disliked them but did not want to hurt Alcott's feelings.

The two men were leaders of Alcott House, an experimental school based on Alcott's methods from the Temple School located about ten miles outside of London.

But Mr. Alcott's ... paternal instincts were too strong for him.

Other novels to be serialized in St. Nicholas were Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins and Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad.

Attendance at Alcott's school was falling.

Channing approved of Alcott's methods and promised to help find students to enroll, including his daughter Mary.

Record of a School, a chronicle of Alcott's Temple School, was published in 1835.

In the Boston Daily Advertiser, Nathan Hale criticized Alcott's " flippant and off hand conversation " about serious topics from the Virgin birth of Jesus to circumcision.

Reverend James Freeman Clarke was one of Alcott's few supporters and defended him against the harsh response from Boston periodicals.

Beginning in 1836, Alcott's membership in the Transcendental Club put him in such company as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson and Theodore Parker.

A supporter of Alcott's philosophies, Emerson offered to help with his writing, which proved a difficult task.

After several revisions, for example, he deemed the essay " Psyche " ( Alcott's account of how he educated his daughters ) unpublishable.

Alcott's opposition to slavery also fueled his opposition to the Mexican – American War which began in 1846.

The result was the Concord School of Philosophy and Literature, which held its first session in 1879 in Alcott's study in the Orchard House.

In April 1882, Alcott's friend and benefactor Ralph Waldo Emerson was sick and bedridden.

As he was bedridden at the end of his life, Alcott's daughter Louisa May came to visit him at Louisburg on March 1, 1888.

Many of Alcott's educational principles are still used in classrooms today, including " teach by encouragement ", art education, music education, acting exercises, learning through experience, risk-taking in the classroom, tolerance in schools, physical education / recess, and early childhood education.

The Concord School of Philosophy, which closed following Alcott's death in 1888, was reopened almost 90 years later in the 1970s.

; Preconceptions: Prior ideas about how things work are remarkably tenacious and an educator must explicitly address a students ' specific misconceptions if the student is to reconfigure his misconception in favour of another explanation.

He began as an educator in 1805 at the Musterschule ( a secondary school ) in Frankfurt, where he learnt about Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ’ s ideas.

* Sukhomlinsky-holistic educator — A web site promoting Sukhomlynsky's ideas and containing photo-galleries.

Eugenio Ceria, a Salesian commentator on the autobiography of John Bosco, ( Memoirs of the Oratory of Saint Francis de Sales ) notes that by this time, owing to his experience as an educator, John Bosco's ideas on several pedagogical and spiritual principles were well developed and linked and this led him to associate the fulfillment of daily duties with holiness in his advice to Savio.

New ideas were dangerous and must be repressed, no matter how.

Reading the Old Testament would have shown the dramatist that the ideas attributed to Shylock were abhorrent to the Jews.

Some of the Hetman's `` ideas '' were dream-ridden, vaguely imparted, and at times preposterous.

The Hetman's `` ideas '' for news stories or editorial campaigns were by no means always fruitless or lacking in merit.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

These basic ideas concerning the nature of religion were, Adams believed, some of the major keys to the understanding of history and the movement of society.

These errors were then collected and written on a blackboard, condensing similar ideas.

Many potters clung to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; ;

So, too, was the insistence on the relativity of the external world, and the ideas that language and things perceived by consciousness were poor substitutes indeed for immediate perception by pure, indwelling spirit: the opposition of pure consciousness to ratiocinating consciousness.

His ideas had a great influence on post-Archaic art, and the Greek architects and sculptors were always trying to find the mathematical relation, that would lead to the esthetic perfection.

The concept that matter is composed of discrete units and cannot be divided into arbitrarily tiny quantities has been around for millennia, but these ideas were founded in abstract, philosophical reasoning rather than experimentation and empirical observation.

They were works of devotional contemplation in which the musical design corresponded to literary ideas, conceived visually.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

These ideas were found in a number of Kabbalistic works from the 13th century, and also among many mystics in the late 16th century.

His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.

Schuster's ideas were not a serious theoretical proposal, merely speculation, and like the previous ideas, differed from the modern concept of antimatter in that it possessed negative gravity.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

However, these ideas were never developed before Commodore filed for bankruptcy.

In his autobiography, he says that the only religious ideas that appealed to him were those to be found in Hindu philosophical thought.

This letter and successive parts were distributed from Bangor ( see External Links below ): in an informal manner, as a kind of diary, Grothendieck explained and developed his ideas on the relationship between algebraic homotopy theory and algebraic geometry and prospects for a noncommutative theory of stacks.

Another problem is that Dutton's categories seek to universalise traditional European notions of aesthetics and art forgetting that, as André Malraux and others have pointed out, there have been large numbers of cultures in which such ideas ( including the idea " art " itself ) were non-existent.