"If I were asked what education should provide, I would say that it should offer breadth of vision, ease of understanding, tolerance for others and a background from which the mind can explore in any direction... Education should provide the tools for a broadening and deepening of life, for a greater appreciation of everything you see and experience, to live life well you must live it with awareness." This quote is from Louis L'amour's autobiography, The Education of a Wandering Man. Among the literary passages read during the English I course, the war novel All Quiet on the Western Front best exemplifies this educational standard. There are several qualities that the book teaches readers, and they are not cliché in any way. Through the eyes of a German soldier, an unusual choice in war material, the audience learns what really happens on the battlefield. All Quiet on the Western Front also explores the need for intimate relationships. The novel provides an excellent education because it presents the horrors of war without prejudice, offers an alternative point of view of an important point in world history, and describes a growing appreciation for the relationships between nature and humans during war. Remarque vividly describes not only the blood on the battlefield, but the emotional turmoil that destroys the men in the trenches. Paul Baümer, the narrator, describes his inner thoughts throughout the work, as he would in a diary. His attitude towards the war gradually changes from anger to despair and depression. At the beginning of the book, the soldiers lose faith in the generation before them and channel this anger towards their fathers and the school teacher, Kantor... halfway through the paper... they realize how little has been achieved politically by the masses. bloodshed. All Quiet on the Western Front also pokes holes in the common stereotype of the First and Second World Wars, often leading modern society to the impression that all German soldiers were black at heart and clashed with Allied forces with every bone in their bodies . Remarque resolves all this with his frank candor, especially in the few days Paul spent with the corpse of Gérard Duval, the French printer. Paul soon realizes that the two were comrades and could easily have been brothers if not for the war and their governments. Erich Remarque's brilliant novel educates the mind on the atrocities of war and what political leaders often try to hide from their people. The classic literary work teaches one of the horrors of war from a non-standard point of view and shows the intimacy of the soldier and nature.