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Education Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

125 Education quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A quiet study corner holds a single candle. The quotes argue that true education is more precious than formal lessons, that experience and respect for the learner shape knowledge, and that curiosity sparked by personal interest beats compulsion. They also suggest that learning can be a remedy for false ideas and a path to deeper truth.

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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

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The world exists for the education of each man.

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“Years teach much which the days never knew.”

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The years teach much which the days never know.

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Education should be as broad as man.

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Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

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“I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.”

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A great teacher makes hard things easy.

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“That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him”

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the…

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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books…

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but…

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If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into…

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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without…

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There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...

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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education…

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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame…

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“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as…

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“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and…

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Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What…

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What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time…

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Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching…

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Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape…

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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal…

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It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of…

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The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every…

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“It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of…

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“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear…

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The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only…

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Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the…

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If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts…

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Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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