All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
Interpretation
Education requires time and consistent effort to master all the details.
This quote emphasizes the gradual and patient nature of education, suggesting that true mastery of knowledge and skills is not achieved overnight but rather through consistent, daily practice and attention to detail. It highlights the importance of perseverance and a dedicated approach to learning.
In practice
During a graduation speech to remind students of the effort needed beyond the classroom.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.
I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally β and often far more β worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
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