We expect a great man to be a good reader.
Interpretation
Great individuals are often well-read and knowledgeable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that to achieve greatness, one should cultivate a habit of reading. This reflects the idea that reading broadens the mind, provides wisdom, and nurtures the qualities that lead to personal and professional success.
In practice
In a speech about personal development, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, we expect a great man to be a good reader, emphasizing the importance of 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?
Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.
I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
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