All Democracies Demand Common Public Education Because

On The Question Of The World As A Whole, Science Founders. For Scientific Knowledge The World Lies In Fragments, The More So The More Precise Our Scientific Knowledge Becomes.

Reason Is Like An Open Secret That Can Become Known To Anyone At Any Time; It Is The Quiet Space Into Which Everyone Can Enter Through His Own Thought

To Decide To Become A Philosopher Seemed As Foolish To Me As To Decide To Become A Poet.

A Scientific Approach Means Knowing What One Knows And What One Doesn't. Absolute Or Complete Knowledge Is Unscientific.

The Socratic Teacher Turns His Students Away From Himself And Back Onto Themselves; He Hides In Paradoxes, Makes Himself Inaccessible. The Intimate Relationship Between Student And Teacher Here Is Not One Of Submission, But Of A Contest For Truth.