Discussions in Education, Količina 1H. Holt, 1899 - 342 strani |
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Stran 25 - Parsons Cooke, in addressing a body of students at Harvard recently, said : " When advocating in our mother university of Cambridge, in Old England, the claims of scientific culture, I was pushed with an argument which had very great weight with the eminent English scholars present, and which, you will be surprised to learn, was regarded as fatal to the success of the natural science triposes then under debate. The argument was, that the experimental sciences could not be made the subjects of competitive...
Stran 262 - The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and artistic finish to Thomas Lord Erskine.
Stran 47 - ... good work's sake, of indisposition to coin name and fame into money, of unwillingness to use one thing that is well done as a means of passing off upon the public three or four things that are ill done. I know the scientific men of America well, and I entertain a profound conviction that in sincerity, simplicity, fidelity, and generosity of character, in nobility of aims and earnestness of effort, in everything which should be involved in the conception of disinterestedness, they are surpassed,...
Stran 104 - The rise and growth of rationalism seems of this kind, 252 the scientific spirit, the desire to prove all things, and to hold fast to that which is good.
Stran 266 - ... work in the same direction. The men of to-day are generally agreed that they are likely to live long enough to make it wise to think a hundred times how they shall live to once thinking how they shall die. The caravansary idea of existence has been abandoned. Man is not a pilgrim, but a citizen. He is going to tarry nights enough to make it worth while to patch up the tenement and even to look into the drainage. This world is a place to work in, activity and development, not suffering or self-repression,...
Stran 156 - Manual training is essential to the right and full development of the human mind, and therefore no less beneficial to those who are not going to become artisans than to those who are. The workshop method of instruction is of great educational value, for it brings the learner face to face with the facts of nature ; his mind increases in knowledge by direct personal experience with forms of matter and manifestations of force. No mere words intervene. The manual exercises of the shop train mental power,...
Stran 194 - As a great object lesson in chemistry, as a means of promoting care, patience, and foresight, as a study of cause and effect, as a medium of conveying useful information, irrespective altogether of the practical value of the art acquired, the short course, which alone the means at command allowed to be given to each class of girls, has constituted, 1 do not doubt, the best body of purely educational training which any girl of all those classes ever experienced within the same number of hours.
Stran 284 - There is one remaining question regarding the athleticism of to-day, which I feel myself so little qualified to discuss that I did not even allude to it while enumerating the things that might be said in favor of competitive sports, or at least in deprecation of the hostile criticisms directed upon them, but which, in closing, I would propose to your sounder judgment and keener thought. It is whether the college athletics, which so many approve and so many condemn, have not, after all, a deeper significance,...
Stran 272 - ... general disappearance, most fortunate as I esteem it, of the literary societies formerly so flourishing, and the decay of oratory, declamation, and debate, which to many once made up the main interest of college life. The second is the rapid growth of athletics, in which immense honor is given the young men because they are strong, swift, enduring, and brave, in which the blood of the whole community is stirred by physical contests among the picked youth of the land as once it was stirred only...
Stran 262 - But, however the type of the college hero might vary, speech-making, debating, or fine writing, were the be-all and the end-all of college training, as in the world outside the college speech-making, debating, or fine writing were the sole recognized signs and proofs of greatness. Physical force, dexterity, and endurance, capacity for action, nerve, and will-power, went for little or nothing, so far as public admiration was concerned. Statesmanship itself was perverted by eagerness to seek occasions...