A Defence of Classical EducationMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1916 - 278 sider |
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Side 8
... tion of classical studies ... as a memento of disinterested culture . Otherwise even the field of education would be sub- merged under the rising tide of commercialism . ” The facts and opinions just cited should keep us from 11 8 ...
... tion of classical studies ... as a memento of disinterested culture . Otherwise even the field of education would be sub- merged under the rising tide of commercialism . ” The facts and opinions just cited should keep us from 11 8 ...
Side 9
... tion of classics in our public schools , and that we have only to expel them in favour of physical science and modern languages , to be cured of all our ills . This idea , which was fostered by the Science Manifesto last February ...
... tion of classics in our public schools , and that we have only to expel them in favour of physical science and modern languages , to be cured of all our ills . This idea , which was fostered by the Science Manifesto last February ...
Side 11
... tion has been at work for more than seventy years . In England it is still , both locally and centrally , incomplete . " And again : " There is little doubt that , so far as wide range of all - round intellectual attainment goes , a ...
... tion has been at work for more than seventy years . In England it is still , both locally and centrally , incomplete . " And again : " There is little doubt that , so far as wide range of all - round intellectual attainment goes , a ...
Side 12
... tion has had a university education than in England , and , it is not surprising , if the Germans , having had more education , and knowing better its value , prize knowledge and use it more than we do . " 1 It is characteristic that ...
... tion has had a university education than in England , and , it is not surprising , if the Germans , having had more education , and knowing better its value , prize knowledge and use it more than we do . " 1 It is characteristic that ...
Side 13
... 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 science we really need ...
... 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 science we really need ...
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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.