A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

Ein Lehrer, der das Gefühl an einer einzigen guten Tat, an einem einzigen guten Gedicht erwecken kann, leistet mehr als einer, der uns ganze Reihen untergeordneter Naturbildungen der Gestalt und dem Namen nach überliefert.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elective Affinities

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Teachers

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Source

Elective Affinities

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

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Writer

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Germany Europe

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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Wahlvenwandtschaften [Elective Affinities]. Tubingen: J. G. Cottaische Buchhandlung, 1809, bk. 2, ch. 7.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities, translated by David Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 7.

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