We expect a great man to be a good reader.
Interpretation
Great individuals are often well-read and knowledgeable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that to achieve greatness, one should cultivate a habit of reading. This reflects the idea that reading broadens the mind, provides wisdom, and nurtures the qualities that lead to personal and professional success.
In practice
In a speech about personal development, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, we expect a great man to be a good reader, emphasizing the importance of education.'
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?
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
I wanted to use my experience to teach kids that racism has no place in hearts and minds.
In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.
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