A man's intellectual as well as his moral qualities proceed from the depths of his own nature, and are not the result of external influences; and no educational scheme -- of Pestalozzi, or of any one else -- can turn a born simpleton into a man of sense. The thing is impossible! He was born a simpleton, and a simpleton he will die.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Thursday, April 21, 2005
No Child Left Behind?
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (Counsels and Maxims, The Ages of Life, tr. T. Bailey Saunders):