4 Simone Weil Quotes on Education

Simone Weil quotes on education

55. The most important part of education - to teach the meaning of to know (in the scientific sense).

56. Although people seem to be unaware of it today, the development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

57. School children and students who love God should never say: 'For my part I like mathematics'; 'I like French'; 'I like Greek.' They should learn to like all these subjects, because all of them develop that faculty of attention which, directed toward God, is the very substance of prayer.

62. Paradoxical as it may seem, a Latin prose or a geometry problem, even though they are done wrong, may be of a great service one day, provided we devote the right kind of effort to them. Should the occasion arise, they can one day make us better able to give someone in affliction exactly the help required to save him, at the supreme moment of his need.