Posted New Year’s Day, January 1, 2021.
“Das Schulexamen (The School Exam)” by Albert Anker, 1862. Via Wikipedia.
The same insatiable criticism may be traced in the efforts for the reform of Education. The popular education has been taxed with a want of truth and nature. It was complained that an education to things was not given. We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing…
---Emerson, from “New England Reformers”, 1844.
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