Nikola Tesla and His Works - On the Occassion of the Eightieth Anniversary Page 21

NIKOLA TESLA AS AN EDUCATIONAL MODEL

Even ancient peoples knew and said that the deeds of a hero are nowhere near as valuable as the influence of their example on younger generations. Our people have also experienced it. In order to create fighters from our uprisings and wars, from which our today’s great state emerged, fiddlers had to

constantly sing about heroes from the past; if we want fighters in the cultural field as well, we must follow in the footsteps of our illiterate, but often ingeniously inspired folk poets, we must find and emphasize heroes of thought and spiritual effort, who were often martyrs of their knowledge and their ideals.

“A child is the father of a man,” a paradox humorously says. How we prepare the youth, that’s how they will grow up. “Unknown unquestioned, known loved.” Education by example