Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.


Studies in pessimism. A series of essays... Selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders... Third edition (ed. 1892)

Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects...

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects...

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects...

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects...