Quotes by Herzen, Alexander

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development th >>

Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystalli >>

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit >>

Quotations about Education

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties >>

Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. >>

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascina >>

Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!

Herzen, Alexander