Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Students

• Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Students, Prudence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1872). “Faust: A Tragedy”, p.65

• Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Sleep, Students

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Science, Medicine

• It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Students, Observation, Equal

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.173, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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