College and the Future: Essays for the Undergraduate on Problems of Character and IntellectRichard Ashley Rice C. Scribner's sons, 1915 - 374 pages |
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... growing and expanding then , when we not only learn , but refer what we learn to what we know already . " -CARDINAL NEWMAN . The object of this volume is to present a set of essays which form a close sequence of ideas , a little ...
... growing and expanding then , when we not only learn , but refer what we learn to what we know already . " -CARDINAL NEWMAN . The object of this volume is to present a set of essays which form a close sequence of ideas , a little ...
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... growing de- fective . Democratic ideals have rather upset the aristoc- racy of learning . We have been able neither to keep the old standards nor to make a proper readjustment to changed conditions , as we have been called on to educate ...
... growing de- fective . Democratic ideals have rather upset the aristoc- racy of learning . We have been able neither to keep the old standards nor to make a proper readjustment to changed conditions , as we have been called on to educate ...
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... grow . To hold an opinion is to understand its tendency to change , and thus to allow its full development in one's life . To be held by an opinion is to be blind to its evolutionary qualities . Ideas change and grow through the ages in ...
... grow . To hold an opinion is to understand its tendency to change , and thus to allow its full development in one's life . To be held by an opinion is to be blind to its evolutionary qualities . Ideas change and grow through the ages in ...
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... grow more and more intimate all our lives . It may be called the technique of life . Learning to write is difficult for the same reason that it is difficult for a boy to think like a man . It can be done . Little by little it is done ...
... grow more and more intimate all our lives . It may be called the technique of life . Learning to write is difficult for the same reason that it is difficult for a boy to think like a man . It can be done . Little by little it is done ...
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... growing up ; and the beginner always hopes that by the time he is perfect in the A B C's he will somehow have a supply of thoughts . But the truth is that whichever advice he inclines to pay chief attention to will show the beginner ...
... growing up ; and the beginner always hopes that by the time he is perfect in the A B C's he will somehow have a supply of thoughts . But the truth is that whichever advice he inclines to pay chief attention to will show the beginner ...
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Page 183 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 186 - It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling the mind by an unmeaning profusion of subjects; of implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not; of considering an acquaint1 Philologists, Salmasius at the University of Leyden (died 1653), Burmann at Utrecht (Hied 1742).
Page 273 - goes for" them. And while such an one is ploughing distressfully up the road, it is not hard to understand his resentment, when he perceives cool persons in the meadows by the wayside, lying with a handkerchief over their ears and a glass at their elbow. Alexander is touched in a very delicate place by the disregard of Diogenes. Where was the glory of having taken Rome for these tumultuous barbarians, who poured into the Senate house, and found the Fathers sitting silent and unmoved by their success?
Page 259 - Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Page 283 - ... into a decline, and are driven off in a hearse with white plumes upon it. Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny ? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give away their priceless youth, for all they know, may be chimerical or hurtful; the glory and riches they expect may never come,...
Page 295 - The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honourable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artist in life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbour.
Page 275 - Aspects of Life. Suffice it to say this: if a lad does not learn in the streets, it is because he has no faculty of learning. Nor is the truant always in the streets, for if he prefers, he may go out by the gardened suburbs into the country. He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a burn, and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones. A bird will sing in the thicket. And there he may fall into a vein of kindly thought, and see things in a new perspective.
Page 192 - ... a set of examiners with no opinions which they dare profess, and with no common principles, who are teaching or questioning a set of youths who do not know them, and do not know each other, On a large number of subjects, different in kind, and connected by no wide philosophy, three times a week, or three times a year, or once in three years, in chill lecture-rooms or on a pompous anniversary. 10. Nay, self-education in any shape, in the most restricted sense, is preferable to a system of teaching...
Page 193 - ... those earnest but ill-used persons, who are forced to load their minds with a score of subjects against an examination, who have too much on their hands to indulge themselves in thinking or investigation...
Page 273 - It is a sore thing to have laboured along and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achievement. Hence physicists condemn the unphysical ; financiers have only a superficial toleration for those who know little of stocks ; literary persons despise the unlettered ; and people of all pursuits combine to disparage those who have none. But though this is one difficulty of the subject, it is not the greatest. You could not be put in prison for speaking against...