Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Teaching
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
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I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
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Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.
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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
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Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
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That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.
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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.
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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
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Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
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Excellence is the new forever.
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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
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