Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Education
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I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
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The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.
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In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Born: August 28, 1749
- Died: March 22, 1832
- Occupation: Writer
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