Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor RooseveltRead
The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.
Interpretation
Love and understanding enrich our learning experiences more than formal education.
Eleanor Roosevelt's quote emphasizes that true education transcends mere academic learning; it encompasses the profound lessons learned through love and understanding. When we engage with others through empathy and affection, we gain valuable insights that contribute to our personal growth and wisdom.
In practice
In a speech about personal development at a community center.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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