Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Students

• The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Teacher, Philosophy

• Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Students, Conversation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

• The student is to read history actively and not passively.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Students

  "The Portable Emerson".

• Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Summer, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.436

• The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Plato, Book, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.168, Graphic Arts Books

• Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Clouds, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

• It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Adventure, Sea

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.158, Library of America

• Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Students, All Things

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.46, Рипол Классик

• If the colleges were better, if they had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, Order, Rushing

  "The Celebration of Intellect". An Address Delivered Before the Students of Tufts College, quod.lib.umich.edu. July 10, 1861.

• Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Students, Conversation

• The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, History, Oracles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.104, Penguin

• The secret of success in education is respecting the students.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Students, Secret To Success

• Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  White, Trying, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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