A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.
Interpretation
Playtime is crucial for our daily lives, as it brings joy and learning.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the importance of play in a child's life, reminding adults that play is not just frivolous but rather an essential component of a balanced daily routine. It suggests that through play, children learn, grow, and find joy, which are critical for their development and well-being, and that adults should not overlook the value of play in their own lives as well.
In practice
In a parenting seminar about balanced family life.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Giving children the sense that you always ought to speak up for what's right, even if it costs you something, that's something you can do.
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it's not evenly distributed.
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