Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
Interpretation
Education enriches our lives through art and literature, but true understanding of humanity comes from philosophical inquiry.
This quote emphasizes the dual nature of education, suggesting that while poetry celebrates the versatility and beauty of knowledge, it is philosophy that digs deeper into human existence and understanding. Schlegel suggests that poetry can inspire and educate in a broad sense, but for a profound comprehension of human nature, philosophical thought is essential.
In practice
This quote could be referenced in a discussion about the importance of both creativity and critical thinking in education.
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
My parents believed in education and economic security, and I thank them for it. Because I think that's part of what's made my life stable. It was instilled in me. You have to be able to pay your bills. You do not get into debt. And I never have been.
We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think of 'success' as synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, 'schooling,' but historically that isnβt true in either an intellectual or a financial sense. And plenty of people throughout the world today find a way to educate themselves without resorting to a system of compulsory secondary schools that all too often resemble prison.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
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