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.
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.
The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
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