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

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

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, School, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.451, Modern Library

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, School, Sunday
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.307, Library of America

I would have the studies elective. 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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, School, Knowledge

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Learning, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Latin, Book, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.82, Courier Corporation

If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual, Religious, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, School, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
School, Men, May
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.206

The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, School, Eye

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
School, Power, Doors
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2738, Delphi Classics

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children, School, Sunday
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.83, Courier Corporation

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, School, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.397, Modern Library

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Girl, School, Boys
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.186, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Team, Fall, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.129, Penguin

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religious, Book, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.281, Modern Library

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teaching, School, Loss
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2750, Delphi Classics

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teacher, School, Understanding
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, School, College

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, School, Boys
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.392, Penguin

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Book, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Children, School
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.567, Modern Library

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