Education and National ProgressMacmillan and Company, 1906 - 269 pages |
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... are lacking . None the less progress is being made , and being made rapidly . The standard of knowledge is rising , and I think that with it the moral standard is rising . Introduction by the Right Honourable R B Haldane.
... are lacking . None the less progress is being made , and being made rapidly . The standard of knowledge is rising , and I think that with it the moral standard is rising . Introduction by the Right Honourable R B Haldane.
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... less will suffice , in order that we may retain the position which we now hold in the van of all industrial nations . All are of opinion that it is of incalculable importance economically that our manufacturers and managers should be ...
... less will suffice , in order that we may retain the position which we now hold in the van of all industrial nations . All are of opinion that it is of incalculable importance economically that our manufacturers and managers should be ...
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... less than the national one ; but perhaps it cannot be said that this state of things exists at present . What , then , are we to do in the meantime ? Have we no means which are at hand and immediately available , which may suffice to ...
... less than the national one ; but perhaps it cannot be said that this state of things exists at present . What , then , are we to do in the meantime ? Have we no means which are at hand and immediately available , which may suffice to ...
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... less , to draw . The faculty of drawing , in the highest artistic sense , was , it was conceded , like the gift of poetry , inborn and not acquired ; but , as every- body almost could write in some fashion or other , so , for the ...
... less , to draw . The faculty of drawing , in the highest artistic sense , was , it was conceded , like the gift of poetry , inborn and not acquired ; but , as every- body almost could write in some fashion or other , so , for the ...
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... less Greek in the early years of the school course . We shall have laboratories , and drawing rooms , and workshops . In some schools we may find modern living languages taught in a living way , replacing the dead languages altogether ...
... less Greek in the early years of the school course . We shall have laboratories , and drawing rooms , and workshops . In some schools we may find modern living languages taught in a living way , replacing the dead languages altogether ...
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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.