All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Education”

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.”
“What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.”
“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; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
“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 is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”
“The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.”
“Knowledge exists to be imparted.”
“That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.”
“I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.”
“Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.”
“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 to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.”
“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.”
“Education should be as broad as man.”
“Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.”
“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”
“There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.”
“Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky And tender to the spirit-touch Of man's or maiden's eye.”
“An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.”
“We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.”
“Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.”
“The education of the will is the object of our existence.”
“Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.”
“The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.”
“The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.”

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