László Polgár Quotes
22 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.”
“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.”
“They do not inspire to great achievements; they raise neither autonomous people nor communally-oriented ones.”
“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.”
“A genius is not born but is educated and trained. When a child is born healthy, it is a potential genius.”
“She is a killer and smells checkmate twenty moves in advance.”
“The experiment is not finished yet.”
“Geniuses are made, not born. Genius equals work and fortunate circumstances.”
“Work, love, freedom, and luck. But the key is hard work, because hard work creates luck; work plus luck equals genius; and a genius is more likely to be happy.”
“It's obviously a very provocative statement. What my father is trying to say is that you have to focus a lot on the work and not just rely on your talent. He believes that every healthy child is a talented one and I completely agree.”
“A child does not need play separate from work, but meaningful action.”
“If to play like a girl meant anything in chess, it would mean relentless aggression.”
