All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Education”

“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
“I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.”
“Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?”
“They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.”
“What we do not understand we do not possess.”
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
“In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”
“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.”
“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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