Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbel ChapinRead
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the idea that true education is about personal growth and transformation rather than just formal degrees.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin suggests that the essence of education lies not merely in the institution one attended but in the depth of knowledge and personal development they have acquired. A person who embodies the wisdom and experiences learned throughout life becomes a 'walking university,' representing the transformative power of education that extends beyond traditional academic settings.
In practice
In a lecture about lifelong learning, a teacher might say this quote to inspire students to seek knowledge beyond the classroom.
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
Children need models rather than critics.
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.
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'
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