University Extension: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Popular Education, Volume 1,Edições 1-12American society for the extension of university teaching., 1892 |
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Página 219 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Página 6 - ... know ourselves in so far as we embody it in our institutions. The present spirit and methods of scientific investigation bear me witness that to know an individual we must study it in its history. It is a part of a process; we need to find its presuppositions in order to make it intelligible. Only in the perspective of its history can we see it so as to comprehend it as a whole.
Página 227 - Europe — that an animal flayed, or a tree stripped of its bark, does not perish more surely than a land deprived of its trees.
Página 7 - When the scholar learns his presuppositions, and sees the evolution afar off of the elements that have come down to him and entered his being — elements that form his life and make the conditions which surround him and furnish the instrumentalities which he must wield, then he begins to know how much his being involves; and in the consciousness of this, he begins to be somebody in real earnest. He begins to find himself. His empty consciousness fills with substance. He recognizes his personal wealth...
Página 3 - Extension," with the express purpose of connecting those famous seats of learning more directly with the people. Lectures and courses of study have been laid out, and in numerous towns there are groups of students pursuing lines of reading and investigation under the direction of professors and fellows in the universities. The practical advantage of this is the hold which it gives those great institutions upon the thoughts and opinions of all classes of people. It is a conservative influence in an...
Página 4 - This latter kind of instruction, it is evident, is ethical ; and we may say, therefore, that it is a characteristic of higher education that it should be ethical, and build up in the mind of the student a habit of thinking on the human relations of all departments of inquiry. In the lower instruction the ethical is taught by precept and practice. In higher education the mind of the student is directed toward the ethical unity that pervades the worlds of man and nature as their regulative principle....
Página 6 - ... is not sufficient to form an acquaintance with it by reading its history or literature in translations. The thorough assimilation of it in consciousness demands such an immediate contact with it as one gets by learning the languages of those people — the clothing of their inmost spiritual selves. We must don the garb in which they thought and spoke in order to fully realize in ourselves these embryonic stages of our civilization. For we know truly what we have lived through. We must live it...
Página 269 - Blakes and Flanagans. It is a work of genius, and possesses real merit as a work of fiction ; but it has a far greater merit as a work of high moral aim, intended to impress upon the minds and hearts of parents the necessity of securing a Catholic education for their children. If there is any one thing more than another that the Church looks after, it is the religious education of the young. She has a mother's love for children, and says always, in the language of our Lord, " Suffer little children...
Página 5 - ... historical age of the people to which he belongs. Each stage of culture is a product of two factors: the activity of present social forces, and that of the previous stage of culture. Every stage of culture goes down into succeeding ones in human history as a silent factor, still exercising a determining influence upon them, but in an ever-weakening degree. The education of the child first proceeds to take him out of himself and bathe him in the rare atmosphere of the childhood of bis race.
Página 4 - Higher instruction differs from lower instruction chiefly in this, lower instruction concerns more the inventory of things and events, and hence has less to do with inquiring into the unity of things and events.