11 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes on Education

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes on education

11. We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

20. All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life.

28. Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige, die uns lehrt, uns selbst zu regieren.

37. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

50. I feel I'm happily inspired now on Classical soil: The Past and Present speak louder, more charmingly. Here, as advised, I leaf through the works of the Ancients With busy hands, and, each day, with fresh delight. But at night Love keeps me busy another way: I become half a scholar but twice as contented. And am I not learning, studying the shape Of her lovely breasts: her hips guiding my hand?

61. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

102. Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

116. If Switzerland were flat as a pancake, it would be larger than Prussia.

129. Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.

132. Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

149. What one knows, one sees.