Editing Hannah Arendt (section)

==== Early education ====
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|image1=Hufen-Oberlyzeum.png|caption1 =[[Hufen-Oberlyzeum]] {{Circa|1923}} |alt1=Photo of Hufen-Oberlyzeum, Hannah's first school
|image2=ID003752 B184 KoeniginLuiseschule.jpg|caption2=[[Königin-Luise-Schule]] in Königsberg {{Circa|1914}}|alt2=Photo of Hannah's secondary school, the Queen Louise School for girls
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Hannah Arendt's mother, who considered herself [[progressivism|progressive]], brought her daughter up on strict [[Goethean]] lines. Among other things this involved the reading of Goethe's complete works, summed up as {{lang|de|Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages}} (And just what is your duty? The demands of the day).{{efn|From ''[[Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]]'' (1796)}} Goethe, was then considered the essential mentor of {{lang|de|Bildung}} (education), the conscious formation of mind, body and spirit. The key elements were considered to be self-discipline, constructive channeling of passion, renunciation and responsibility for others. Hannah's developmental progress ({{lang|de|Entwicklung}}) was carefully documented by her mother in a book, she called {{lang|de|Unser Kind}} (Our Child), measuring her against the benchmark of what was then considered {{lang|de|normale Entwicklung}} ("normal development").{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|pp=12–13}}

Arendt attended kindergarten from 1910 where her precocity impressed her teachers and enrolled in the [[Szittnich School, Königsberg]] (Hufen-Oberlyzeum), on Bahnstraße in August 1913,{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|pp=16, 19}} but her studies there were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, forcing the family to temporarily flee to [[Berlin]] on 23 August 1914, in the face of the advancing Russian army.{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|p=21}} There they stayed with her mother's younger sister, Margarethe Fürst, and her three children, while Hannah attended a girl's {{lang|de|[[Lyzeum]]}} school in [[Berlin-Charlottenburg]]. After ten weeks, when Königsberg appeared to be no longer threatened, the Arendts were able to return,{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|p=21}} where they spent the remaining war years at her grandfather's house. Arendt's precocity continued, learning [[ancient Greek language|ancient Greek]] as a child,{{sfn|Villa|2009}} writing poetry in her teenage years,{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|p=3}} and starting both a ''Graecae'' (reading group for studying classical literature) and philosophy club at her school. She was fiercely independent in her schooling and a voracious reader,{{efn|Anne Mendelssohn described her as someone who had "read everything"{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|p=32}}}} absorbing French and German literature and poetry (committing large amounts to memory) and philosophy. By the age of 14, she had read [[Kierkegaard]], [[Karl Jaspers|Jaspers]]' {{lang|de|Psychologie der Weltanschauungen}} and [[Kant]]'s {{lang|de|Kritik der reinen Vernunft}} (''[[Critique of Pure Reason]]''). Kant, whose hometown was also Königsberg, was an important influence on her thinking, and it was Kant who had written about Königsberg that "such a town is the right place for gaining knowledge concerning men and the world even without travelling".{{sfn|Kant|2006|p=4}}{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|p=36}}

Arendt attended the [[Königin-Luise-Schule]] for her secondary education, a girls' [[gymnasium (Germany)|Gymnasium]] on Landhofmeisterstraße.{{sfn|Heller|2015a}} Most of her friends, while at school, were gifted children of Jewish professional families, generally older than she was, and who went on to university education. Among them was [[:de:Ernst Grumach|Ernst Grumach]], who introduced her to his girlfriend, Anne Mendelssohn,{{efn|Anne Mendelssohn: Descendant of [[Moses Mendelssohn]] and [[Felix Mendelssohn]], an influential local family. Anne left Germany for Paris at the same time as Arendt, married the philosopher [[Eric Weil]] in 1934, and worked for the [[French Resistance]] under the alias Dubois. She died on 5 July 1984{{sfn|Kirscher|2003}}}} who would become a lifelong friend. When Anne moved away, Ernst became Arendt's first romantic relationship.{{efn|Like Arendt, Anne Mendelssohn would go on to become a philosopher, obtaining her doctorate at Hamburg,{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|p=32}} while Ernst became a [[philologist]].{{sfn|Young-Bruehl|2004|p=29}}}}
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|image1=Lindener Marktplatz 2, Ecke Falkenstraße, Hannover-Linden-Mitte, Hannah-Arendt-Haus mit Markt-Apotheke Linden.jpg|caption1 =Hannah Arendt's birthplace in [[Linden-Limmer|Linden]] |alt1=Photograph of the house that Arendt was born in, in the marketplace in Linden
|image2=Konigsberg Tiergarten strasse (1).jpg|caption2=Tiergartenstraße, [[Königsberg]] 1920s|alt2=Photo of Tiergartenstraße in the 1920s
|image3=Hannah-Arendt-Haus Marburg.jpg|caption3= Lutherstraße 4, [[Marburg]]|alt3=Photo of the House Hannah Arendt lived in<!--not a mistake--> in Marburg
|image4=HeidelbergSchlossberg.jpg|caption4=Schlossberg, [[Heidelberg]]|alt4=Old postcard of Schlossberg in Heidelberg, where Hannah lived
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