Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor RooseveltRead
The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.
Interpretation
Love and understanding enrich our learning experiences more than formal education.
Eleanor Roosevelt's quote emphasizes that true education transcends mere academic learning; it encompasses the profound lessons learned through love and understanding. When we engage with others through empathy and affection, we gain valuable insights that contribute to our personal growth and wisdom.
In practice
In a speech about personal development at a community center.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.
Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons, low-income jobs, and poverty.
In the 1970s, what I, as a young foreign student studying in the United States, found most dynamic, exciting and impressive about this country is what much of the world continues to value most about the U.S. today: its open intellectual culture, its great universities, its capacity for discovery and innovation.
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