Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn
Interpretation
Learning should be seen as a privilege, not an obligation.
Albert Einstein's quote emphasizes the transformative perspective on education, suggesting that one should view studying not as a burdensome task, but as a unique chance to expand one's knowledge and understanding of the world. By reframing study as an opportunity, individuals can cultivate a genuine passion for lifelong learning that enriches their lives.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire students to embrace learning.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.
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