Education MosaicsSilver, Rogers & Company, 1887 - 274 pages |
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acquire action æsthetic Aristotle ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER attained beauty become better brains character child classical cultivated culture discipline duty exercise facts faculty feel FREDERICK TEMPLE genius give Greek habits heart HERBERT SPENCER higher highest human ideas important influence instruction intellectual intelligence JAMES MCCOSH JAMES SULLY JOHN JOHN LOCKE JOHN LYLY JOHN RUSKIN JOHN STUART MILL JOHN TYNDALL knowl knowledge labor language Latin laws learning lesson literary literature living mathematics matter means ment mental methods mind modern moral nature never object perfect PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON philosophy Plato practical present principles public schools pupils result SAMUEL SMILES scholar scientific sense society Socratic method soul spirit student success taste taught teacher teaching things thought tion tongue true truth universal WILLIAM WHEWELL wisdom words young youth
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Page 119 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work, that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 173 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Page 142 - But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness...
Page 222 - For direct self-preservation, or the maintenance of life and health, the all-important knowledge is — Science. For that indirect self-preservation which we call gaining a livelihood, the knowledge of greatest value is — Science. For the due discharge of parental functions, the proper guidance is to be found only in — Science. For that interpretation of national life, past and present, without which the citizen cannot rightly regulate his conduct, the indispensable key is — Science. Alike...
Page 63 - It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
Page 241 - Onward and on, the eternal Pan Who layeth the world's incessant plan, Halteth ne'ver in one shape, But forever doth escape, Like wave or flame, into new forms Of gem, and air, of plants and worms.
Page 215 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 222 - What knowledge is of most worth? — the uniform reply is — Science. This is the verdict on all the counts. For direct self-preservation, or the maintenance of life and health, the all-important knowledge is — Science. For that indirect self-preservation which we call gaining a livelihood, the knowledge of greatest value is — Science. For the due discharge of parental functions, the proper guidance is to be found only in — Science. For that interpretation of national life, past and present,...
Page 29 - ... with the public, to be far greater than his own, and still have a happy faith that the nature of things works silently on behalf of the studies which he loves, and that, while we shall all have to acquaint ourselves with the great results reached by modern science, and to give ourselves as much training in its disciplines as we can conveniently carry, yet the majority of men will always require humane letters ; and so much the more, as they have the more and the greater results of science to...
Page 29 - The instinct for beauty is set in human nature, as surely as the instinct for knowledge is set there, or the instinct for conduct. If the instinct for beauty is served by Greek literature and art as it is served by no other literature and art, we may trust to the instinct of self-preservation in humanity for keeping Greek as part of our culture. We may trust to it for even making the study of Greek more prevalent than it is now.