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School Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor…
- Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
- The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look…
- What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
- 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…
- If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious…
- The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
- 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…
- A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can…
- You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of his…
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