10 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Education

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on education

3. It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

19. Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

30. When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

86. A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

106. One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

135. Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.

146. Popularizing should always be done in such a manner that one would elevate people by it. If one stoops down, one should always take care of elevating even those people to whom one descends.

147. Some people read because they are too lazy to think.

160. We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.

164. You must not allow your reading to dominate you but you should dominate your reading.