The student is to read history actively and not passively.
Interpretation
Students should engage with history rather than just consume it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of active participation in learning history. He argues that students should not simply absorb historical facts passively but should critically analyze and engage with the material to gain a deeper understanding and a more meaningful connection to the subject.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to encourage students to analyze historical events critically.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.
I entered the University of Natal as a preliminary-year student in 1966 and stayed on to June 1972, when I was expelled from the university. I was then doing third-year medicine.
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
There isnβt an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.
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