Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Education

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803-1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, essayist, poet, and social activist. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most prominent thinkers and writers of the United States. He was the first to express and formulate the philosophy of Transcendentalism.

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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

Topic: Pedagogy Education

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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topic: Psychology Education

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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

Topic: Pedagogy Education

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The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of education. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topic: Pedagogy Education

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There is no knowledge that is not power. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topic: Philosophy Education

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Knowledge exists to be imparted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Topic: Psychology Education

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