QUOTES by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness.
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life”.
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
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The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits.
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See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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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; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
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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 come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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Books are the best type of the influence of the past… The theory of books is noble.
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Colleges… can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
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Books are the best of things, well used; abused, the worst. What is the right use? What is the end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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The boy wishes to learn to skate, to coast, to catch a fish in the brook, to hit a mark with a snowball or a stone; and a boy a little older is just as well pleased to teach him these sciences.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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Free should the scholar be, — free and brave… Brave; for fear is a thing, which a scholar by his very function puts behind him. Fear always springs from ignorance… The world is his, who can see through its pretension.
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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
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