Chapter VII: Introduction: I. Textual (3)

“Should your inventive power extend so far, suggest to me the means
of holding back the students in the universities from the bread and
butter studies, and of making them understand that their modicum of
law, even their theology and medicine, will be immensely more
easily acquired and safely applied, if they are in possession of
more philosophical knowledge. They can be judges, advocates,
preachers and physicians only for a few hours each day; but in
these and all the remainder of the day they are men, and have need
of other sciences. In short, you must instruct me how this is to be
brought home to students. Printed injunctions, laws,
regulations--these are even worse than bread and butter study
itself.”[75]

A Minister of Education who thus ranks philosophy above professional studies, and both as more important than all academic machinery, holds his office by divine right.