Beauty Quote by Elaine Scarry

“This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.”

— Elaine Scarry

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his…

— Noam Chomsky

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

— Friedrich Schiller

From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from…

— E. O. Wilson

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence…

— Charles Baudelaire

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

— Anne Carson

The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to…

— Carl Rogers

To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the…

— R. Scott Bakker

“Self-education is a lifetime affair. In life, as in science, there are unsuccessful experiments. Difficult personal and professional experiences are not for naught. Every…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of…

— George Santayana