Home » Quote » Ralph Waldo Emerson » „The student is to read history actively not passively.“ „The student is to read history actively not passively.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson Tags:HistoryReading Related quotes „Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug“ — Antonio Gramsci „As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.“ — Barack Obama