 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 pages
...Greece and Rome. That the classics should form the basis of all teaching was an axiom with Dr. Arnold. "The study of language," he said, "seems to me as...human mind in youth; and the Greek and Latin languages seem the very instruments by which this is to be effected." Certainly, there was something providential... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1848 - 646 pages
...they are most admirable to instruct, refine and delight men. "The study of language," says Dr. Arnold, "seems to me as if it was given for the very purpose...to teach boys philology through the medium of their mother tongue, seem the very instruments by which this is to be effected." "The study of Latin and... | |
 | Martin Lowther Clarke - 1959 - 254 pages
...prose-composition. Though he introduced other subjects, he had no desire to dethrone the classics. 'The study of language', he said, 'seems to me as...human mind in youth; and the Greek and Latin languages . . . seem the very instruments by which this is to be effected.'2 But with him the emphasis was not... | |
 | 1938 - 1036 pages
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 | 1870 - 886 pages
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 | Dictionary - 1885 - 472 pages
...the classics as the best vehicle for the study of language — a study which seemed to him as if ' given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth ' — he was the first to add mathematics, modern history, and modern languages to the ordinary school... | |
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he said, "seems to me as if it was given for the very purpose of forming the human mind in youth ; and the Greek and Latin languages seem the very instruments by which this is to be effected. 
