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Education Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
- The education of the will is the object of our existence.
- The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
- The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the…
- There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
- It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in…
- The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
- One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
- There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if…
- Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What…
- Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
- Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
- Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn…
- The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench…
- Always do what you are afraid to do.
- There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
- Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
- There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must…
- If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It…
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
- The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
- There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...
- We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words…
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe