"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played."
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Education
More From Ludwig Wittgenstein
- "Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
- "Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important."
- "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
More In Education
- "Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains."― Gregory Bateson
- "English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street."― E. B. White
- "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."― Ursula K. Le Guin