What Is Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parzival Stage Of Learning

Education is defined as “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction,” while learning is defined as “the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught”. Most forms or receiving knowledge today come from education. Children are sat in a classroom and expected to sit and listen to what they supposedly should know. Most schooling gives the aspect of learning in half the sense. Knowledge is gained through studying and being taught, but experience isn’t too common nowadays. In Wolfram Von Eschenbach’s Parzival, knowledge is gained in almost opposite way than in today’s time. Parzival receives knowledge in different stages from different teachers, encompassing all the ideas of what learning should be. Parzival’s first experience with education came from his mother. Because of her husband’s death, Lady Herzeloyde “ set on grief.. withdrew from her possessions to a forest in the wilds of Soltane” (Eschenbach

In this stage, Parzival must take everything he has learned and figure out how to apply it to his quest. Although her job of teaching begins before Parzival fully gets to this stage, she pushes him in the right direction. Cundrie begins her teaching by cursing Parzival for not asking the question, which prompts him into this stage. Parzival has very little time to decide what to do and must put all of his education together. He goes off to finish his quest, and gain the last qualities he needs to be a successful Grail King. Parzival gains understanding of the world around him, how all parts of his education were necessary to shaping his life. Because of all the different learning bases he had, he was able to possess more qualities that made him more apt to be the Grail King. Cundrie appears again to teach Parzival one more thing, and that is that he has become the Grail