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TEACHERS AND PUPILS
IDEAS AND OPINIONS
A talk to a graup of children. Published in Mein Weltbild,
Amsterdam: Querida Verlag, 1934.
My DEAR CHILDREN:
I rejoice to see you before me today, happy youth of a sunny
and fortunate land.
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your
schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic
effort and infinite labor in every country of the world.
All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that
you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully
hand it on to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality
in the permanent things which we create in common.
If you always keep that in mind you will find a meaning in
life and work and acquire the right attitude toward other
nations and ages.
EDUCATION AND EDUCATORS
A letter to a young girl. Published in Mem Weltbild,
Amsterdam: Querida Verlag, 1934.
I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript and it
made me-smile. It is clever, well observed, honest; it stands
on its own feet up to a point, and yet it is so typically feminine,
by which I mean derivative and steeped in personal resentment.
I suffered at the hands of my teachers a similar treatment; they
disliked me for my independence and passed me over when they
wanted assistants (I must admit, though, that I was somewhat
less of a model student than you). But it would not have been
worth my while to write anything about my school life, and still
less would I have liked to be responsible for anyone's printing
or actually reading it. Besides, one always cuts a poor figure if