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László Polgár Quotes
20 quotes from László Polgár — Hungarian chess teacher and educational psychologist who raised three daughters to become chess prodigies, proving 'gen….
“Genius is made, not born.”
“It is very important that the child likes what they are doing; only then will it be possible to inspire a long period of fruitful labor.”
“The fact that I did not send my daughters to school is, of course, connected to the fact that I hold an unfavorable opinion of it.”
“Contemporary schools do not educate for life.”
“Contemporary schools do not promote a love of learning.”
“They raise neither autonomous people nor communally-oriented ones.”
“The teacher cannot 'tailor' the study material for most of the students' individual needs.”
“Too often they must make the whole class mechanically repeat more or less identical tasks.”
“Genius is made not born.”
“It is very important that the child likes what they are doing; only then will it be possible to inspire a long period of fruitful labor.”
“The fact that I did not send my daughters to school is, of course, connected to the fact that I hold an unfavorable opinion of it.”
“Contemporary schools do not educate for life; they equalize everyone to a very low level.”
“Contemporary schools are separate from real life in that they function sort of as laboratories.”
“My daughters, who have never visited a school, grew up much more in the context of real life.”
“Contemporary schools do not promote a love of learning.”
“They do not inspire to great achievements; they raise neither autonomous people nor communally-oriented ones.”
“The teacher cannot 'tailor' the study material for most of the students' individual needs.”
“Too often they must make the whole class mechanically repeat more or less identical tasks.”
“Let us take this step by step, and start with your first remark: schools do not educate for life.”
“One learns not for the sake of school, but of life.”