Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Teaching

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching, Government, Bully

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching, Intuition, Tuition

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.30

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teacher, Teaching, Doors

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching, Philosophical, Gita

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Teaching, Science

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.421, Penguin

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Teaching, Science

Nature Discipline (p. 38)

Excellence is the new forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching, Learning, Forever

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching, Brave, Should

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.63, Harvard University Press

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching, School, Loss

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2750, Delphi Classics

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teaching, Benefits, Principles

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Education, Cheer, Teaching

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.182

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Distance, Teaching, Quality

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.218, Cosimo, Inc.

Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daughter, Spring, Teaching

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.163