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.
[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.
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