Sunday, November 22, 2009

What Emerson Teaches Us

"Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!"

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) : American transcendentalist philosopher, essayist & lecturer
Source: Lectures and Biographical Sketches[1883], "Education"

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