The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
Interpretation
Emerson suggests that colleges provide resources but lack effective teaching from knowledgeable professors.
In this quote, Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes that while educational institutions offer necessary resources such as libraries, they often fall short in providing effective educators who can guide students in understanding and interpreting the vast wealth of knowledge contained within those resources. He argues for the importance of having professors who can teach and inspire students, rather than just providing access to books without proper guidance.
In practice
A college commencement speech discussing the importance of mentorship and guidance in education.
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?
For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.
UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.
I was not a good student. I did not spend much _x000D_ time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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