Some things don’t change
Two-hundred forty-three years of choking on school-dust:
“O you his machine-like teacher, well do you need to suppress his healthy understanding with your school Logic; otherwise he would take your measure, repeat the gobbledygook you took an hour to trot out afterwards naturally but without school-cleverness in three words. He would despise you! But woe unto you; from a thousand heads who would have become men only ten will be bold enough to be wise; the rest are choked with school-dust — like the Egyptian midwife.”
–Johann Gottfried von Herder, How Philosophy Can Become More Universal and Useful for the Benefit of People, 1765.
