Hermann Hesse Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Rain, School

• One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  School, Two, Mind

• In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wise, School, People

  Hermann Hesse (1969). “Gertrude”

• It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

  Hermann Hesse

  School, Silence, House

• I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

  Hermann Hesse

  Latin, Book, School

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

• And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is all nothing but a swindle invented by the schoolmasters for educational reasons to keep children occupied for a given number of years. It has always been so and always will be.

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Educational, Hero

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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