The Meaning of Education, and Other Essays and AddressesMacmillan, 1904 - 230 pages |
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... mental peculiarities and advantages and perpetuated them rather than merely phys- ical peculiarities and advantages . That is the first , and in a sense , perhaps , the greater of these contributions , for it has enabled us to un ...
... mental peculiarities and advantages and perpetuated them rather than merely phys- ical peculiarities and advantages . That is the first , and in a sense , perhaps , the greater of these contributions , for it has enabled us to un ...
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... mental , and our moral life is the gradual growth or de- velopment of what may be conceived of as a point travelling through an ever - widening series of circles , until , in this ripe and culti- vated age , the point has come to ...
... mental , and our moral life is the gradual growth or de- velopment of what may be conceived of as a point travelling through an ever - widening series of circles , until , in this ripe and culti- vated age , the point has come to ...
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... mental facul- ties to be trained , each by its appropriate formal exercise , as if they were sticks of wood to be shaped and reduced to symmetry and order . Mental life , as Wundt so forcibly says , " does not consist in the connection ...
... mental facul- ties to be trained , each by its appropriate formal exercise , as if they were sticks of wood to be shaped and reduced to symmetry and order . Mental life , as Wundt so forcibly says , " does not consist in the connection ...
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... mental life without reference to its physical basis ; and it will sooner or later regard any interpretation as incomplete that does not relate the individual to what may be called the social life or con- sciousness . Man's institutional ...
... mental life without reference to its physical basis ; and it will sooner or later regard any interpretation as incomplete that does not relate the individual to what may be called the social life or con- sciousness . Man's institutional ...
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... mental and physical fatigue , as arrived at by such investigations as those of Mosso and of Burgerstein , are about as familiar to teach- ers in colleges and in preparatory schools as are the Laws of Manu . And yet they affect vi- tally ...
... mental and physical fatigue , as arrived at by such investigations as those of Mosso and of Burgerstein , are about as familiar to teach- ers in colleges and in preparatory schools as are the Laws of Manu . And yet they affect vi- tally ...
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Page 65 - Binds it, and makes all error : and, to KNOW, Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Page 56 - Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine, and be not diffident Of wisdom; she deserts thee not, if thou Dismiss not her, when most thou need'st her nigh, By attributing overmuch to things Less excellent, as thou thyself perceiv'st.
Page 63 - The world embraces not only a Newton, but a Shakespeare -- not only a Boyle, but a Raphael -- not only a Kant, but a Beethoven -- not only a Darwin, but a Carlyle. Not in each of these, but in all, is human nature whole. They are not opposed, but supplementary -- not mutually exclusive, but reconcilable.
Page 17 - If education cannot be identified with mere instruction, what is it ? What does the term mean? I answer, it must mean a gradual adjustment to the spiritual possessions of the race.
Page 65 - Truth is within ourselves ; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness ; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception— which is truth.
Page 147 - Denn nur der große Gegenstand vermag Den tiefen Grund der Menschheit aufzuregen; Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn, Es wächst der Mensch mit seinen größern Zwecken.
Page 220 - At the same time, it is obviously desirable that the colleges and scientific schools should be accessible to all boys or girls who have completed creditably the secondary school course.
Page 63 - And if, unsatisfied with them all, the human mind, with the yearning of a pilgrim for his distant home, will turn to the mystery from which it has emerged, seeking so to fashion it as to give unity to thought and faith...
Page 195 - ... best method of teaching this subject throughout the school course? " (10) Can any description be given of the best mode of testing attainments in this subject at college admission examinations? " (11) For those cases in which colleges and universities permit a division of the admission examinations into a preliminary and a final examination, separated by at least a year, can the best limit between the preliminary and final examinations be approximately defined?
Page 195 - Should the subject be treated differently for pupils who are going to college, for those who are going to a scientific school, and for those who, presumably, are going to neither?