Ludwig Wittgenstein on Education
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, catalogued under education, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, entry #33355: "My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense."
Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, entry #241220: "People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them — that does not occur …"
4 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein on Education
"My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense."
"People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them — that does not occur to them."
"310. A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as to the existence of things, the meaning for words, etc. The teacher says "Stop interrupting me and do as I tell you. So far your doubts don't make sense at all."
"A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom."