mr. alcott. they were in boston when mr. alcott met ralph waldo emmerson and they struck up quite the friendship. emmer sovepb was well ensconced in this town, he thought alcott belonged her. the political revolution in 1775, but it also had a literary revolution in the 1800's. mr. emmerson wanted planson alcott to move here. here in mr. scal alcott's study i wanted to focus on what's above the fireplace. this was an expression of mr. lcott's lifelong belief. he seas are scooped in vain if learning falter vanish from the plain. it's an elaborate way of saying, never stop learning. you're never too young to start and never too old to keep going. that was very, very important. mr. alcott dedicated most of his life to education. in the early years he was educating the young and his educational ideas were extremely unusual for the day. it was an era when most teachers were concerned primarily with order in the classroom, they would use the rod, some of the expressions which we find a little funny today must not have been funny to