Monday 18 December 2006

Education

Somebody says: "Of no school I am part, Never to living master lost my heart, Nor any more can I be saidTo have learned anything from the dead."
That statement - subject to appeal -Means "I'm a self-made imbecile."

(J.W. Goethe, Den Originalen, 1812).



Every school of thought is like a man who has talked to himself for a hundred years and is delighted with his own mind, however stupid it may be.

(J.W. Goethe, 1817, Principles of Natural Science)