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.
Interpretation
A good reader brings a book to life, uncovering personal insights that resonate uniquely with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between a reader and a book, suggesting that the worth of a book is enhanced by the quality of the reader. In this context, a discerning and reflective reader can extract profound wisdom and personal connections from the text that may go unnoticed by others, illustrating the importance of perspective in literary interpretation.
In practice
During a book club discussion, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book,' to emphasize the value of shared interpretations.
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
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Enthusiasm is the engine of success.
The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.
Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.
As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
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