What Knowledge is of Most WorthJ.B. Alden, 1884 - 82 pages |
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... Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library . A company of the wisest and wittiest men picked out of all civil countries , in a thousand years , have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom . " - EMERSON ...
... Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library . A company of the wisest and wittiest men picked out of all civil countries , in a thousand years , have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom . " - EMERSON ...
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... them ; but because society considers them parts of a good education - because the absence of such knowledge may bring the con- tempt of others . When we have named read- ing , writing , spelling , grammar , arithmetic , 8 EDUCATION .
... them ; but because society considers them parts of a good education - because the absence of such knowledge may bring the con- tempt of others . When we have named read- ing , writing , spelling , grammar , arithmetic , 8 EDUCATION .
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... considering the enormous importance of de- termining in some rational way what things are really most worth learning . It is true that in all circles we have occasional remarks on the importance of this or the other order of information ...
... considering the enormous importance of de- termining in some rational way what things are really most worth learning . It is true that in all circles we have occasional remarks on the importance of this or the other order of information ...
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... considering the vastness of the in- terests at stake , its difficulty is no reason for pusillanimously passing it by ; but rather for devoting every energy to its mastery . And if we only proceed systematically , we may very soon get at ...
... considering the vastness of the in- terests at stake , its difficulty is no reason for pusillanimously passing it by ; but rather for devoting every energy to its mastery . And if we only proceed systematically , we may very soon get at ...
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... weariness , the gloom , the waste of time and money thus entailed , only consider how greatly ill - health hinders the discharge of all duties - makes business often impossible , and always more KNOWLEDGE OF MOST WORTH . 25.
... weariness , the gloom , the waste of time and money thus entailed , only consider how greatly ill - health hinders the discharge of all duties - makes business often impossible , and always more KNOWLEDGE OF MOST WORTH . 25.
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acquaintance acquired actions activities admit agencies Alfred Tennyson Andersen arts Battle of Marathon bearing become benefit body carried cause Chief Apostles cial citizen civilization comparatively complete living compulsory conduct conform consider course cultivation culture direct discipline doubtless edge ence Evidences of Evolution evils existing facts functions further give given gratification greater Gustave Doré habit Hans Andersen human ideas ignorant indirect self-preservation industrial intrinsic James Parton Jean Ingelow John Caird kind knowl knowledge labor laws learning less Lord Byron means ment mental mind nature numerous offspring old poor-law organization owner parents parish passed phenomena poetry political precedence preparation present principles produce question railways rate-payers regulated respect Richard Wagner scarcely scientific Sindbad the Sailor sion slavery social society spect supply tain tends things thought tion tional true truth vidual welfare worth
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Page 16 - Those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring ; 4. Those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations ; 5. Those- miscellaneous activities which make up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification of the tastes and feelings.
Page 3 - ... here, and audience there, when all the while this eternal court is open to you, with its society, wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, — the chosen and the mighty of every place and time...
Page 15 - In what way to treat the body; in what way to treat the mind; in what way to manage our affairs ; in what way to bring up a family ; in what way to behave as a citizen; in what way to utilize all those sources of happiness which nature supplies — how to use all our faculties to the greatest advantage of ourselves and others...
Page 39 - The vital knowledge— that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our whole existence, is a knowledge that has got itself taught in nooks and corners; while the ordained agencies for teaching have been mumbling little else but dead formulas.
Page 39 - That which our school courses leave almost entirely out, we thus find to be that which most nearly concerns the business of life. Aff] our industries would cease, were it not for! that information which men begin to acquire ' ' as they best may after their education is said to be finished.
Page 18 - ... underlies the welfare of society. And hence, knowledge directly conducing to the first, must take precedence of knowledge directly conducing to the last. Those various forms of pleasurable occupation which fill up the leisure left by graver occupations — the enjoyments of music, poetry, painting, etc. — manifestly imply a pre-existing society. Not only is a considerable development of them impossible without a long-established social union, but their very subject-matter consists in great...
Page 47 - The belief, not only of the socialists but also of those so-called Liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them, is that by due skill an illworking humanity may be framed into well-working institutions. It is a delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in the bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of leaden instincts.
Page 58 - When the forces of Nature have been fully conquered to man's use— when the means of production have been brought to perfection— when...
Page 15 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge; and the only rational mode of judging of an educational course, is to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Page 32 - And as the ability of a nation to hold its own against other nations depends on the skilled activity of its units, we see that on such knowledge may turn the national fate.