A Defence of Classical EducationMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1916 - 278 sider |
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Side 13
... sense that our educa- tion is largely in physical science , but that , what- ever we do , we shall realise that the first business is to collect the relevant facts , so that we can base our action on knowledge . And this is the kind of ...
... sense that our educa- tion is largely in physical science , but that , what- ever we do , we shall realise that the first business is to collect the relevant facts , so that we can base our action on knowledge . And this is the kind of ...
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... sense , better educated than the German— a type acute and critical , with a good general culture , and with a fairly wide basis of knowledge , and a capacity for handling it and putting it on paper which Germans rarely possess ; its ...
... sense , better educated than the German— a type acute and critical , with a good general culture , and with a fairly wide basis of knowledge , and a capacity for handling it and putting it on paper which Germans rarely possess ; its ...
Side 18
... sense of that word . The Government might do something if they encouraged Indian civilians to do some suitable research during their ' long leave , ' instead of spending their time in travelling or tennis ; many Nigerian civil servants ...
... sense of that word . The Government might do something if they encouraged Indian civilians to do some suitable research during their ' long leave , ' instead of spending their time in travelling or tennis ; many Nigerian civil servants ...
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... sense of proportion . Commerce will not flourish the better if I send into it men of narrow outlook and untrained minds ; and in the end , my method will pay you , even in mere coin of the realm . If a College tutor , with no special ...
... sense of proportion . Commerce will not flourish the better if I send into it men of narrow outlook and untrained minds ; and in the end , my method will pay you , even in mere coin of the realm . If a College tutor , with no special ...
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... sense , his success , depends on his reaching it , little in his surroundings helps him to do so . He was prob- ably born among smoke and red brick ; there is not much beauty in the streets around him ; the literature which in the ...
... sense , his success , depends on his reaching it , little in his surroundings helps him to do so . He was prob- ably born among smoke and red brick ; there is not much beauty in the streets around him ; the literature which in the ...
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Side 75 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Side 38 - Roused though it be full often to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish; and to evil and to good Be lost for ever. In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who...
Side 37 - The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart; Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart: Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget!
Side 64 - Our constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands not of the few but of the many. But our laws secure equal justice for all in their private disputes, and our public opinion welcomes and honors talent in every branch of achievement, not for any sectional reason but on grounds of excellence alone.
Side 96 - I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
Side 96 - I will keep this oath and this stipulation— to reckon him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him and relieve his necessities if required, to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers and to teach them this art if they shall wish to learn it without fee or stipulation...
Side 75 - How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Side 81 - Let our artists rather be those who are gifted to discern the true nature of the beautiful and graceful ; then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds, and receive the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, shall flow into the eye and ear, like a health-giving breeze from a purer region, and insensibly draw the soul from earliest years into likeness and sympathy with the beauty of reason.
Side 116 - Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.
Side 38 - In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.