Education MosaicsSilver, Rogers & Company, 1887 - 274 pages |
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acquired action æsthetic Aristotle ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER attained beauty become better brains character child classical cultivated culture discipline duty educa exercise facts faculty feel FREDERICK TEMPLE genius give Greek habits heart HERBERT SPENCER higher highest human ideas important influence instruction intellectual intelligence JAMES SULLY JOHN JOHN LOCKE JOHN LYLY JOHN RUSKIN JOHN TYNDALL knowl knowledge labor language Latin laws learning literary literature living manner 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 THOMAS FUller thought Thucydides tion tongue true truth understand universal WILLIAM WHEWELL wisdom words young youth
Popular passages
Page 173 - A POPULAR government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is a farce or a tragedy, or both. Knowledge will govern ignorance ; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. JAMES MADISON. THE
Page 119 - by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself. THOMAS H. HUXLEY.
Page 64 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship; and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. WE
Page 163 - he have not studied solid things in them, as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman completely wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 242 - MIGHT I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him: " Try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life that is the most wholesome society. Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the good men admired ; they admired good things,
Page 90 - the Latin, Greek, and French; for law, the Latin and French; merchants, the French, German, and Spanish ; and, though all should not be compelled to learn Latin, Greek, or the modern foreign languages, yet none that have an ardent desire to learn them should be refused; their English, arithmetic, and other studies absolutely necessary, not being neglected.
Page 142 - excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellect, not nature, is necessary; our speculations upon matters are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such
Page 199 - THE mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. When we have had continually before us the great works of art to impregnate our minds with
Page 142 - emergence that one may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Page 70 - WHEN you know a thing, to hold that you know it ; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it ; this is knowledge. CONFUCIUS.