Erich Fromm Quotes

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the habit of reading, watching, and preserving.

For whatever reason, I've always been interested in those types of things - leadership books and different ways to connect with people in a real, authentic, genuine type of way.

Other than basketball, I just come to KG for advice on life, just understanding how business works and understanding how I can be a better leader and also be a better human being.

I believe that the mistakes you make in the past are learning experiences and make you grow as a human.

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them.

I build only living stones--men.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

It's better to build boys than mend men.

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.