Johann Friedrich Herbart Quotes

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The intention with which the educator is to approach his work, this practical reflection, provisionally detailed down to the measures which our present state of knowledge suggests we should choose, is to my mind the first half of pedagogics. But there must be a second in which the possibility of education is theoretically explained and presented with its limitations in the light of changing circumstances.

Johann Friedrich Herbart
It is of course a familiar precept that the teacher must try to arouse the interest of his pupils in all that he teaches. However, this precept is generally meant and understood to denote the idea that learning is the end and interest the means to attain it. I wish to reverse that relationship. Learning must serve the purpose of creating interest. Learning is transient, but interest must be lifelong.

Johann Friedrich Herbart
The idea that aptitude for mathematics is rarer than aptitude for other subjects is merely an illusion which is caused by belated or neglected beginners.

Johann Friedrich Herbart
Mathematics is the predominant science of our time; its conquests grow daily, though without noise; he who does not employ it for himself, will some day find it employed against himself.

Johann Friedrich Herbart
The great science occupies itself at least just as much with the power of imagination as with the power of logical conclusion.

Johann Friedrich Herbart
Everything that the greatest minds of all times have accomplished toward the comprehension of forms by means of concepts is gathered into one great science, mathematics.

Johann Friedrich Herbart
All that the greatest minds of all the ages have done toward the apperception of form through concepts, we find gathered into a single great science - mathematics.

Johann Friedrich Herbart
Mathematics, the priestess of definiteness and clearness.

Johann Friedrich Herbart