Questions on Rhetoric and Style - Education When Emerson says “Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions,” he means that people are all similar in that we all have skin and bones, but everyone thinks differently. He applies this to education, by saying he feels that although humans are alike in many physical aspects, they tend to have different ways to easily learn and gain new knowledge. The relationship between “Genius and Drill,” as Emerson explains it, is paradoxical because a child has the potential to become a genius, but in order to reach that goal, the child must drill himself/herself by learning new things. To understand it, they try to learn from someone, such as a teacher, who is able to not only inspire them to learn, but help them as well. Emerson’s purpose in developing the long explanation taken up almost entirely by an extended example in Paragraph 4, was because it shows importance, and draws in the reader to think about the issue he is explaining. Emerson tries to explain how you are able to learn and what it …show more content…
Paragraph 4’s last sentence: “Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.” In Paragraph 9: “Tis so in every art, in every science. In Paragraph 11: “Alas for the cripple Practice when it seeks to come up with the bird Theory, which flies before it.” These three examples help to demonstrate Emerson’s feelings towards education, learning, and teaching which he believed could be taught with by patience. Two further examples to prove patience is important in becoming a genius are in Paragraph 13. “Now the correction of this quack practice is to import into Education the wisdom of life. Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature,” and “He has a secret; wonderful methods in him; he is--every child--a new style of man; give him time and