Essays on a Liberal EducationFrederic William Farrar Macmillan & Company, 1868 - 384 sivua |
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Sivu 49 - Wherefore, if the gentleman's son be apt to learning, let him be admitted ; if not apt, let the poor man's child that is apt enter his room.
Sivu 297 - ... more things in heaven and earth than were dreamt of in their philosophy.
Sivu 291 - This fine old world of ours is but a child Yet in the go-cart. Patience ! Give it time To learn its limbs : there is a hand that guides.
Sivu 56 - ... their minds to virtue, and their carriage to good breeding, as of forming their tongues to the learned languages ; you must confess, that you have a strange value for words, when, preferring the languages of the ancient Greeks and Romans to that which made them such brave men, you think it worth while to hazard your son's innocence and virtue for a little Greek and Latin.
Sivu 8 - Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears." But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock.
Sivu 177 - If we take the single department of philosophy, is it not evident that, if the English system had been followed in the Scotch Universities, there would have been no Scotch school of philosophy? And has not the German school sprung entirely from the Universities ? Were not Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, without exception, university professors? That barrenness in ideas, that contempt for principles, that Philistinism which we hardly deny to be an English characteristic now, was not always so.
Sivu 56 - Latin and learning make all the noise : and the main stress is laid upon his proficiency in things, a great part whereof belongs not to a gentleman's calling ; which is to have the knowledge of a man of business, a carriage suitable to his rank, and to be eminent and useful in his country, according to his station.
Sivu 272 - You hand round to each boy several specimens, say of the herb Robert; and taking one of the flowers, you ask one of them to describe the parts of it. ' Some pink leaves,' is the reply. 'How many?' 'Five.' ' Any other parts ?' ' Some little things inside.' 'Anything outside?' 'Some green leaves.' 'How many?' ' Five.' ' Very good. Now pull off the five green leaves outside, and lay them side by side ; next pull off the five pink leaves, and lay them side by side ; and now examine the little things...
Sivu 49 - The poor man's son by pains-taking will for the most part be learned, when the gentleman's son will not take the pains to get it. And we are taught by the Scriptures that Almighty God raiseth up from the dunghill, and setteth him in high authority.
Sivu 158 - ... ashamed of falling short of perfect knowledge in the genders of Latin nouns, which involve no principle at all, and in which a minute accuracy can hardly be attained without a certain frivolity or eccentricity of memory ! No one will deny the importance of rigorously testing knowledge.