To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.
Interpretation
Learning a new language is an enriching experience that opens up new perspectives.
Ernst Cassirer suggests that acquiring a new language is not merely about vocabulary and grammar, but is a transformative journey that allows individuals to explore and understand a different culture and worldview. This process of discovery broadens one's horizons and deepens personal growth, akin to embarking on a spiritual adventure.
In practice
This quote can inspire students in a language class to see beyond just learning words.
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.
Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.
Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.
If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.
I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.
At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.
Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
I don't think that our Founders would believe that America could long prosper if the people were not readers.
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