German Educator Quotes

Josef Albers

Eckhart Tolle

Karl G. Maeser

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?

I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion.

Mathematics, too, is a language, and as concerns its structure and content it is the most perfect language which exists, superior to any vernacular; indeed, since it is understood by every people, mathematics may be called the language of languages. Through it, as it were, nature herself speaks; through it the Creator of the world has spoken, and through it the Preserver of the world continues to speak.

Christian Heinrich von Dillmann