{"id":3238,"date":"2023-07-08T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T21:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/hermann-hesse-on-wonder-and-the-proper-aim-of-education-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T17:05:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T21:05:59","slug":"hermann-hesse-on-wonder-and-the-proper-aim-of-education-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/hermann-hesse-on-wonder-and-the-proper-aim-of-education-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermann Hesse on Wonder and the Proper Aim of Education \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It bears repeating<\/a> that what makes life livable is our ability \u2014 our willingness \u2014 to move through the world wonder-smitten by reality. The most wonderful thing about wonder is that it knows no scale, no class, no category \u2014 it can be found in a geranium or in a galaxy, in the burble of a brook or in the Goldberg Variations<\/em>. \u201cA leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars,\u201d<\/a> wrote Walt Whitman, eternal patron saint of wonder.<\/p>\n

Wonder, after all, is what we look for when we are looking<\/a> and the richest recompense of learning how to look<\/a>. G.K. Chesterton knew this when, in his wonderful meditation on the dandelion and the meaning of life<\/a>, he observed that the object of the creative life, of the full life, is to dig for the \u201csubmerged sunrise of wonder.\u201d Dylan Thomas knew it in the recognition that \u201cchildren in wonder watching the stars, is the aim and the end.\u201d<\/a> Rachel Carson knew it when she insisted that the greatest gift a parent can give a child is \u201ca sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.\u201d<\/a> Goethe knew it when he exclaimed: \u201cI am here, that I may wonder!\u201d<\/p>\n

How to live into that knowledge with the full capacity of our creaturely potential is what Hermann Hesse<\/a> (July 2, 1877\u2013August 9, 1962) explores in a soulful century-old reflection included in Butterflies: Reflections, Tales, and Verse<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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