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How does one become an educated person? Education is more than information and knowledge, it promises orientation and permanence: that which really endures and is worthwhile. Jan Roß shows how to gain access to this seemingly difficult and closed world. There is no reason to be intimidated by tradition. Education, Roß says, ultimately means something very simple - that we are not alone in trying to master life and understand the world. How to join this community and how to become at home in it - that's what his book is about. It accompanies the reader to the Acropolis and to Rome, to Shakespeare, Kant and Dostoyevsky, but also to scientists like Darwin or revolutionaries like Rosa Luxemburg. Education means knowing the magic slogan with which we can make the human heritage of poets, thinkers and artists speak and call to our aid. If you want to learn the magic formula, this book is written for you.