Famous Quotes | Colleges, in like manner, have...

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,—to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Oration, August 31, 1837, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts. “The American Scholar,” repr. In Emerson: Essays and Lectures, ed. Joel Porte (1983).

Categories: Education, Essayist, Philosopher, Universities And Colleges

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