Emanuel Lasker: Quotes about education

Emanuel Lasker was German World Chess Champion and grandmaster, contract bridge player, mathematician, and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on education.

Emanuel Lasker: 16 quotes5 likes

“He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess…the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leads to standstill or to anarchy.”

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925), p. 338

“Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judgement. Chess must not be memorized, simply because it is not important enough… Memory is too valuable to be stocked with trifles.”

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925), p. 337

“Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result…Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.”

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925), p. 337