...special problem is — the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances. . . . To prepare us for complete living is the function...to discharge; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is to judge in what degree it discharges such function." This preparation...

...is true, in order to do what is right." And Herbert Spencer means the same thing when he says : ' ' To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge." And since the essence of life as far as we can know it is " Res ponse to the order of nature," the higher...

...ulterior object of state intervention in education. Herbert Spencer's aphorism is appropriate here : 'To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ' ; and ' complete living ' includes much more than ability in business. The State must set forth on a higher...

...zielen. Das ergibt sich schon aus dem worte Spencer's, das die herausgeber als motto gewählt haben: "To prepare us for complete living is the function which Education has to discharge." Der erste, von Sir Philip Magnus geschriebene leitartikel ist denn auch Herbert Spencer als Pädagogen...

...purpose, some one asks. For my own selfish purpose. "All truth is worthy of study for its own sake." "To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge." Education Is like religion, for your own special benefit and not for your lazy neighbor. As said before,...

...needful for us to team, is, by consequence, the great thing which education has to teach. To prepare .-.s for complete living is the function which education has to discharge : and the only radical mode of judging of any educational course, is, to judge in what degree it discharges such functions....

...modify or control that environment. It is first a matter of principles and second a matter of methods." "To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge," says Herbert Spencer, "and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course, is to judge...

...and since every reader is at least as 1 We may recall the aphorism in the world-famous Education : "To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge." ' Studies in Religion and Literature, Chapman & Hall, 1904, p. 33. 1 Spencer defines conduct as " the...

...proclaimed by Spencer in his 1 Davidson, "Rousseau," p. 177. 2 Op. cil., p. 176. famous statement, "To fit us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge," for to Plato this statement would have been acceptable, but to him "complete living" would have contemplated...

...zielen. Das ergibt sich schon aus dem worte Spencer's, das die herausgeber als motto gewählt haben: "To prepare us for complete living is the function which Education has to discharge." Der erste, von Sir Philip Magnus geschriebene leitartikel ist denn auch Herbert Spencer als pädagogen...