What Knowledge is of Most WorthJ.B. Alden, 1884 - 82 pages |
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... question ; so in education , the question is , not the intrinsic value of knowledge , so much as its extrinsic effects on others . And this being our dominant idea , direct utility is scarcely more regarded than by the barba- rian when ...
... question ; so in education , the question is , not the intrinsic value of knowledge , so much as its extrinsic effects on others . And this being our dominant idea , direct utility is scarcely more regarded than by the barba- rian when ...
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... question at issue is totally insig- nificant when compared with the general question of which it is part . To suppose that deciding whether a mathematical or a classi- cal education is the best , is deciding what is the proper ...
... question at issue is totally insig- nificant when compared with the general question of which it is part . To suppose that deciding whether a mathematical or a classi- cal education is the best , is deciding what is the proper ...
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... question which we contend is of such transcendent moment , is , not whether such or such knowledge is of worth , but what is its relative worth ? When they have named cer- tain advantages which a given course of study has secured them ...
... question which we contend is of such transcendent moment , is , not whether such or such knowledge is of worth , but what is its relative worth ? When they have named cer- tain advantages which a given course of study has secured them ...
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... question of questions , which it is high time we discussed in some methodic way . The first in impor- tance , though the last to be considered , is the problem - how to decide among the conflict- ing claims of various subjects on our ...
... question of questions , which it is high time we discussed in some methodic way . The first in impor- tance , though the last to be considered , is the problem - how to decide among the conflict- ing claims of various subjects on our ...
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... question , " Of what use is it ? " the mathe- matician , linguist , naturalist , or philosopher , explains the way in which his learning bene- ficially influences action - saves from evil or secures good - conduces to happiness . When ...
... question , " Of what use is it ? " the mathe- matician , linguist , naturalist , or philosopher , explains the way in which his learning bene- ficially influences action - saves from evil or secures good - conduces to happiness . When ...
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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.