Men in Bearskins

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena , Vol. II, Chapter 17, § 191 (tr. Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway): No ancient German literature, Nibelungs and other such poets of the Middle Ages should be taught in gymnasia. These things are highly remarkable, to be sure, and also worth reading, but they do not contribute to the cultivation of taste and they rob time that…