"A great teacher makes hard things easy...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great teacher makes hard things easy.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”
“Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.”
“A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.”
More on Teaching
“If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.”
“I do a lot of conferences, a lot of leadership training. For about six or seven years I've been making this statement - every time I make it, I can see people just kind of - it's just one of those light bulb moments.”
“It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!”
More on Education
“All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.”
“I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.”
“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”