Then you must have had a really shitty school. ''Education [Bildung], truth and virtue must be disseminated to such an extent that the "concept of mankind" takes on a great and dignified form in each individual. However, this shall be achieved personally by each individual, who must absorb the great mass of material offered to him by the world around him and by his inner existence, using all the possibilities of his receptiveness; he must then reshape that material with all the energies of his own activity and appropriate it to himself so as to create an interaction between his own personality and nature in a most general, active and harmonious form.''

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