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教育家愛默斯‧布朗森‧愛爾考特 (Amos
Bronson Alcott) ，也是路易莎‧梅‧愛爾考特 (Louisa
May Alcott) 之父出生於1799年11月29日
愛爾考特用他自己的家人來驗證他的教育理論。他和他的妻子一共生了四個女兒：安娜、路易莎、麗琪，與梅。愛爾考特相信教育應該是相當愉快的經驗。他在自己的學校裡教授的課程包括了體育、舞蹈、藝術、音樂、自然研究，以及日常寫作等等。剛開始一切似乎都很順利，但是就在他允許一個黑人小孩入學之後，事情卻有了改變，學校失敗了。到了1835年，所有學生都離開學校了。
路易莎‧梅‧愛爾考特(1832-1888)的財務成功對愛爾考特一家是一大幫助；他的經典小說「小婦人」，主要在講述一個家庭的故事，其內容即是路易莎．梅．愛爾考特根據自身經歷所完成的。愛爾考特一家搬至麻州康柯的歐查豪斯，愛默斯．愛爾考特在此地的一座改建穀倉內成立了康克夏日哲學學校；他死於1888年，而該校在他死後不久才繁榮。
Alcott put his educational theories to the test with his own family. He and his wife had four daughters, Anna, Louisa, Lizzie, and May. Alcott believed that education should be a pleasant experience, and he included physical education, dance, art, music, nature study, and daily journal writing in the course of studies he established at his school. At first the school was successful, but it later failed when he insisted on allowing a black child to attend, and by 1835, all the remaining pupils had withdrawn.
The financial success of Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), who wrote about a family based on her own in the classic novel Little Women (1868-1869), was a big help to the Alcott family. The Alcotts moved to Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, where Amos Alcott established the Concord Summer School of Philosophy in a converted barn. The school flourished until shortly after his death in 1888.
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