Giacomo Leopardi Quotes on Education

Giacomo Leopardi

1798-1837

Giacomo Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist. He came in touch with the main thoughts of the Enlightenment and by his own literary evolution created a remarkable and renowned poetic works related to the Romantic era.

Quotes

The children find everything in nothing, the adult find nothing in everything. - Giacomo Leopardi

Translated from Italian

Topic: Philosophy Education

Tags: children, find, adult

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The great incorrectness of educators is their desire that young people liked what they like at the old age or the age of maturity; that they think that the life of young people does not differ from that of the older people; that they want to abolish the difference between tastes and desires; that they want that the teachings, instructions, and the force of necessity were submitted to experience. - Giacomo Leopardi

Translated from Italian

Topic: Pedagogy Education

Tags: teachings, desire, abolish

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