"They teach in academies far too many..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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“My worthy friend, gray are all theoriesAnd green alone Life's golden tree.”
“Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!”
“The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.”
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“If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.”
“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”
“The best teacher is very interactive.”