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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Education

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Education, Peace
'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Suicide, Hope
"Essays: First Series, Self-Reliance". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Wisdom, Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Graduation, Education, Teaching
"Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, School, Existence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2508, Delphi Classics

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, School, Reflection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1966). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838”, p.19, Harvard University Press

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Children, Parenting
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Education, Teaching
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.226, Рипол Классик

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Teacher, Philosophy

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiring, Education, Lying
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2745, Delphi Classics

The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Summer, Education, Winter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1523, Delphi Classics

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Son, Pay
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Harvard University Press

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Suicide, Ignorance
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.162, Harvard University Press

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Educational
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Modern Library

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Intellectual, Degrees
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.33, Harvard University Press

We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Eye, Exercise
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2741, Delphi Classics

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Learning, College
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Nature, Stars
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.151, Courier Corporation

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Science, Brave

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Lying, Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

Labor is God's education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Work, Labor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.142, Library of America

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Children, Latin
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.75, Harvard University Press

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Responsibility, Intelligent

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Travel, Home
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.278, Library of America

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Teacher, Wish
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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