03 October 2005

education from educe...

Education gives to Man nothing which he might no educe out of himself; it gives him that which he might educe out of himself, only quicker and more easily. In the same way too, Revelation gives nothing to the human species, which the human reason left to itself might not attain; only it has given, and still gives to it, the most important of these things earlier.

The Education of The Human Race, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1774–1778.

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