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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes about Teaching

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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1982). “Wilhelm Meister's Years of Travel or the Renunciants”, Riverrun Pr

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.129

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.173, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe