To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.
Interpretation
Learning a new language is an enriching experience that opens up new perspectives.
Ernst Cassirer suggests that acquiring a new language is not merely about vocabulary and grammar, but is a transformative journey that allows individuals to explore and understand a different culture and worldview. This process of discovery broadens one's horizons and deepens personal growth, akin to embarking on a spiritual adventure.
In practice
This quote can inspire students in a language class to see beyond just learning words.
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.
Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
Sadly, there are many children who have not yet been given the chance to 'discover the magic of reading, or set foot in the worlds you can discover on bookshelves.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.
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