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Page 106 - ... do you not see that your father does so and so ?' in the fourth, ' you are little, and this is only fit for grown-up people;' in the fifth, ' the chief matter is that you should succeed in the world, and become something in the state;' in the sixth, ' not the temporary, but the eternal, determines the worth of a man;' in the seventh, ' therefore rather suffer injustice, and be kind;' in the eighth, ' but defend yourself bravely if any one attack you...
Page 116 - ... before us ere we mark out the appointed road. The child is not to be educated for the present — for this is done without our aid unceasingly and powerfully — but for the remote future, and often in opposition to the immediate future.
Page 91 - ... that just as we gain intellectual power by doing intellectual work, and the finest aesthetic feeling by creating beauty, so shall we win for ourselves the power of feeling nobly and willing nobly by doing "noble things." HOW SHALL WE GOVERN OUR CHILDREN? "Not the cry," says a Chinese author, "but the rising of a wild duck, impels the flock to follow him in upward flight.
Page 73 - Secondly, printing ink now is like sympathetic ink, it becomes as quickly invisible as visible ; wherefore it is good to repeat old thoughts in the newest books, because the old works in which they stand are not read.
Page 226 - Never, never has one forgotten his pure, right-educating mother! On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, towards which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers who marked out for us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart.
Page 415 - VOLTAIRE IN this book will be found the ger.n of all that is useful in present systems of education, as well as most of the ever-recurring mistakes of well-meaning zealots.
Page 74 - ... thoughts in the newest books, because the old works in which they stand are not read. New translations of many truths, as of foreign standard works, must be given forth every half century. And, indeed, I wish that even old German standard books were turned into new German from time to time, and so could find their way into the circulating libraries. " Why are there flower and weed gleanings of every thing, but no wine or corn gleanings of the innumerable works on education? Why should one single...
Page 338 - POPE— First Book of Horace. Ep. VI. Line 3. Since truthfulness, as a conscious virtue and sacrifice, is the blossom, nay, the pollen, of the whole moral growth, it can only grow with its growth, and open when it has reached its height.
Page 154 - a distaff of flax from which the soul spins a many-colored coat." It must be indefinite, capable of many transformations and able to act many parts. Only thus can it fulfill its twofold mission — to stimulate creative activity and satisfy the hunger of the soul for the ideal.
Page 116 - ... boy of genius, and into that of the little cook by birth some romantic feather from a poet's wing. For the rest, let it be a law that, as every faculty is holy, none must be weakened in itself, but only have its opposing one aroused; by which means it is added harmoniously to the whole.