Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich SchillerRead
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Interpretation
Education is enriched by the appreciation and understanding of beauty.
Friedrich Schiller emphasizes that true education goes beyond mere knowledge acquisition; it involves recognizing and experiencing beauty in the world. This experience shapes our understanding and sensibilities, encouraging a deeper connection with life and learning, as beauty can inspire creativity and emotional growth.
In practice
During a graduation speech to inspire students about the value of holistic education.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone
You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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