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.
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
We should be teaching young girls to take up space. Nothing is as important as taking up space in society and cementing yourself.
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them but that they carry with them love, peace and joy. That they become the sunshine of God's love to our people, the hope of eternal happiness and the burning flame of love wherever they go. That they become carriers of God's love. That they be able to give what they have received. For they have received not to keep, but to share.
In reading, we are both scientists and poets.
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