Education and National ProgressMacmillan and Company, 1906 - 269 pages |
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... experience gained elsewhere , instead of wasting , let us say , a quarter of a century in costly experiments which may perhaps leave us in confusion worse confounded . To begin , then , why is this question being discussed now ? There ...
... experience gained elsewhere , instead of wasting , let us say , a quarter of a century in costly experiments which may perhaps leave us in confusion worse confounded . To begin , then , why is this question being discussed now ? There ...
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... of the existence of which he never dreamed , and so far removed from his experience that his mind however powerful in some directions , fails to grapple with them . We seem , then , on the horns of a THE EDUCATION OF ARTIZANS . 21.
... of the existence of which he never dreamed , and so far removed from his experience that his mind however powerful in some directions , fails to grapple with them . We seem , then , on the horns of a THE EDUCATION OF ARTIZANS . 21.
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... experience of those that preceded us . Did we study humanities alone we should be shorn of half our natural strength in face of many of the problems placed before us by the conditions of modern life ; and , more than this , all the ...
... experience of those that preceded us . Did we study humanities alone we should be shorn of half our natural strength in face of many of the problems placed before us by the conditions of modern life ; and , more than this , all the ...
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... experienced . Our secondary education is at the present moment all but absolutely separated from the primary one . Of the 4,000,000 scholars on the books of elementary schools last year there were only 44,000 over the age of fourteen ...
... experienced . Our secondary education is at the present moment all but absolutely separated from the primary one . Of the 4,000,000 scholars on the books of elementary schools last year there were only 44,000 over the age of fourteen ...
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... experience which has been gained in these gigantic educational experiments ; experiments by which we may profit , as we are so late in the race , if we care to do so ? One point is that if a chance is put before those who have passed ...
... experience which has been gained in these gigantic educational experiments ; experiments by which we may profit , as we are so late in the race , if we care to do so ? One point is that if a chance is put before those who have passed ...
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Page 53 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 177 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 19 - The advancement of the Fine Arts and of Practical Science will be readily recognised by you as worthy of the attention of a great and enlightened nation. I have directed that a comprehensive scheme shall be laid before you, having in view the promotion of these objects, towards which I invite your aid and co-operation.
Page 142 - We have long and fully resolved with Ourself to extend not only the boundaries of the Empire, but also the very arts and sciences. Therefore we look with favour upon all forms of learning, but with particular grace we encourage philosophical studies, especially those which by actual experiments attempt either to shape out a new philosophy or to perfect the old.
Page 142 - II., by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., to all to whom these present Letters shall come, greeting. We have long and fully resolved with Ourself to extend not only the boundaries of the Empire, but also the very arts and sciences.
Page 248 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 38 - Now the master does not teach, and the boy in nine cases out of ten has no opportunity of grasping the whole of the art or mystery at all. Many of you will begin to think that you are listening to the play of Hamlet...
Page 207 - ... of academical study was formed in connection with the inquiry into the revenues of Oxford and Cambridge, and there was a famous meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern, Mark Pattison being in the chair.
Page 137 - ... of the Empire, but also the very arts and sciences. Therefore we look with favour upon all forms of learning, but with particular grace we encourage philosophical studies, especially those which by actual experiments attempt either to shape out a new philosophy or to perfect the old. In order, therefore, that such studies, which have not hitherto been sufficiently brilliant in any part of the world, may shine conspicuously amongst our people, and that at length the whole world of letters may...
Page 178 - It is a struggle between organized species — nations— not between individuals or any class of individuals. It is, moreover, a struggle in which science and brains take the place of swords and sinews, on which depended the result of those conflicts which, up to the present, have determined the history and fate of nations. The school, the university, the laboratory and the workshop are the battlefields of this new warfare.