Idols of Education: Selected and AnnotatedDoubleday, Page, 1910 - 179 pages |
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Page 155 - The ideal college education seems to me to be one where a student learns things that he is not going to use in after life, by methods that he is going to use.
Page 3 - ... canvassing the girls for votes, spending hours at sorority houses for votes — spending hours at sorority houses for sentiment; talking rubbish unceasingly, thinking rubbish, revamping rubbish— rubbish about high jinks, rubbish about low, rubbish about rallies, rubbish about pseudo-civic honor, rubbish about girls; — what margin of leisure is left for the one activity of the college, which is study?
Page 49 - Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Page 60 - He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do : and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Page 120 - He heads his class at raffia work, And also takes the lead At making dinky paper boats — But I wish that he could read. They teach him physiology, And oh, it chills our hearts To hear our prattling innocent Mix up his inward parts. He also learns astronomy And names the stars by night; Of course he's very up-to-date, But I wish that he could write. They teach him things botanical, They teach him how to draw; He babbles of mythology And gravitation's law; The discoveries of science With him are...
Page 11 - college activities," by which he must prove his allegiance to the University, and social functions by which he must recreate his jaded soul, no margin is left for the one and only college activity — which is study. Class meetings, business meetings, committee meetings, editorial meetings, football rallies, baseball rallies...
Page 18 - ... of a profession, it not only misses the liberal equipment necessary for the ultimate mastery of life, but indirectly diverts the general scope of education from its true ideals. The spirit of the Renaissance, says a modern historian of poetry, is portrayed in a picture by Moretto. It is of a young Venetian noble.
Page 80 - Especially downtrodden of men is our heritage from antiquity. Man will always be the heir of all the ages. To satisfy him with the heritage of a recent yesterday, the modern languages and literatures, modern history and poetry and economics strive in vain. He remains the child of the ages, but a child deprived of his full heritage — deprived, by a constructive inhibition in our schools, of the imaginative, moral, and historical training of the Bible, and of the inestimable riches of its literature...
Page 83 - Michigan, pleading from the platform of a great university for the rights and privileges of complete education, said: " The allurements of mammon and worldliness are too often permitted to call our ingenuous youth from the proper business of the school and college. Short roads and by-paths are opened up to tempt them to abandon the proper work of education and to go prematurely to schools of professional and technical instruction. The consequence is the sending forth of halfeducated men and inexperienced...
Page 9 - West, social standing means no such thing; it means the position achieved by prominence in non-academic or "campus" activities. And in student esteem such prominence cuts a far more important figure than that of either wealth or scholarship. Such prominence has been gaining ground for fifteen years. So long as the social pressure of the university is toward mundane pursuits, it will be vain to expect the student to achieve distinction in that for which the university stands. This false standard of...