...exploitation of children be best and most surely prevented? CHAPTER XIV THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL "To PBEPABE us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge, and we judge the value of any training solely by reference to this end. For complete living we must know...

...The great function of education is, in the language of Herbert Spencer, to teach men how to live — not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. Man does not live by bread alone. The farmer and the mechanic must also be a member of society, a citizen,...

...purpose, some one asks. For my own selfish purpose. "All truth is worthy of study for Its own sake." "To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge." Education is like religion, for your own special benefit and not for your lazy neighbor. As said before,...

...comparatively valueless. All then, either directly or by implication, appeal to this as the ultimate test. How to live ? that is the essential question for us....mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem, is — the right ruling of conduct in...

...comparatively valueless. All then, either directly or by implication, appeal to this as the ultimate test. How to live ?—that is the essential question for...mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is—the right ruling of conduct in all...

...which he ascribes to them. *We entirely agree that the essential question for us is how to live—"not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem, which comprehends every special problem, is—the right ruling of conduct in all...

...with the worth of various alternative results which the same years might bring if otherwise applied. How to live? — that is the essential question for...mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is — the right ruling of conduct in all...

...with the worth of various alternative results which the same years might bring if otherwise applied. How to live? — that is the essential question for...mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is — the right ruling of conduct in all...

...great thing needful for us to learn, is, by consequence, the great thing which education has to teach. To prepare us for complete living is the function...education has to discharge ; and the only rational modo of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function....

...The great function of education is, in the language of Herbert Spencer, to teach man Kow to live — not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. Man does not live by bread alone. The farmer and the mechanic must also be a member of society, a citizen,...