“Bildung is a German word for education, cultivation, personal formation and character, emotional and moral development, and maturation combined…
It is two different kinds of knowledge:
- The easily transferable kind of knowledge, which can be academic or practical, and where we can always expand our horizon. We can thus refer to it as horizontal knowledge and/or development.
- The almost impossible to transfer kind of knowledge, which comes from life experience, particularly pushbacks.
It is our emotional and moral development, our emotional depth and upbringing, and we can refer to it as vertical knowledge and/or development.
The combination of horizontal and vertical knowledge and development is bildung.”
Also see Enlightenment by command