Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Teaching

• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Teaching, Use

• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

• We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Sarcastic, Teaching

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1982). “Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel or the Renunciants”, Riverrun Pr

• A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Teacher, Memories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.175, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Teaching, Useless

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.129

• There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Teaching, Scholar

• Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Teacher, Teaching

• First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teaching, Men, Firsts

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

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