What Are We For? by Eleanor Roosevelt

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

EDUCATION

We need to change our attitude in this country toward learning and knowledge, its value, and the respect due to those who take the trouble to learn.

(My Day, March 3, 1958)

The average home in this country will buy a TV set before it will see to it that the children have the necessary books to read at home which will enrich their school courses.

(My Day, April 17, 1961)

If we look at education not as something to end at any special point, but as a preparation whereby we can attain the means to acquire whatever we need in life, we shall have a truer perspective on what we want to achieve through our educational system.

(My Day, December 30, 1942)

It is never enough, it seems to me, to teach a child mere information. In the first place, we have to face the fact that no one can acquire all there is to learn about any subject. What is essential is to train the mind so that it is capable of finding facts as it needs them, train it to learn how to learn.

(You Learn by Living)

As the volume of knowledge about our world increases, programs of study are becoming more and more complicated, and we must strive harder to give our children the kind of education that would fit them for a life that must be lived in a changing world.

(My Day, April 11, 1962)

We are not doing such a remarkably good job in education as to assume that we have done all that can be done for our young people.

(My Day, July 8, 1957)

Have we been honest and brave enough to make clear to our young people that we could not, if we would, provide the specific education that would equip them for the coming world, whose face no one knows? Have we told them bluntly that the best we can do is to give them skills, to train the mind so that it becomes a flexible tool . . . ?

(Tomorrow Is Now)

I have always believed that beautiful surroundings were a help in education.

(My Day, October 12, 1937)

There is a wonderful word, why?, that children use. All children. When they stop using it, the reason, too often, is that no one bothered to answer them. . . .

Every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. . . . If the child’s curiosity is not fed, if his questions are not answered, he will stop asking questions. And then, by the time he is in his middle twenties, he will stop wondering about all the mysteries of the world. His curiosity will be dead.

(You Learn by Living)

What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child’s education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.

(You Learn by Living)

I have come to believe that one of the essentials of education is developing a sense of self-confidence.

(The Pond’s Program, May 5, 1937)

Every child should be given some business education besides the ordinary standards of honesty.

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