The Utility of All Kinds of Higher Schooling: An InvestigationH. O. Shepard Company, 1909 - 331 páginas |
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Página 20 - If we inquire what is the real motive for giving boys a classical education, we find it to be simply conformity to public opinion. Men dress their children's minds as they do their bodies, in the prevailing fashion. As the Orinoco Indian puts on his paint before leaving his hut, not with a view to any direct benefit, but because he would be ashamed to be seen without it ; so, a boy's drilling in Latin and Greek is insisted on, not because of their intrinsic value, but that he may...
Página 43 - Bible, (the law spoken of in the text,) declared that, if he had his life to live over again, he would spend it in the study of the Word of God.
Página 135 - The general assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools, whereby all children of this state may receive a good common school education.
Página 98 - The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary ; second, what is useful ; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
Página 93 - In my own experience I can say that I have known few young men intended for business who were not injured by a collegiate education.
Página 20 - ... a boy, in nine cases out of ten, applies his Latin and Greek to no practical purposes. The remark is trite that in his shop or his office, in managing his estate or his family, in playing his part as director of a bank or a railway, he is very little aided by this knowledge he took so many years to acquire ; so little, that generally the greater part of it drops out of his memory...
Página 144 - Instead of looking at the position of the enemy and his tactics with an unbiased mind, and fitting his tactics to the ground and circumstances, General Buller evidently wished to fit the ground and circumstances to his unsuitable book tactics and proposed to retire to South Natal in the vain hope that the enemy would oblige him by following after, and thus enable him to fight there according to the book. Other generals complained that the Boers " bolted" before an attack with the bayonet could be...
Página 21 - And all without hurry or care." " But we that have but span-long lives" must ever bear in mind our limited time for acquisition. And remembering how narrowly this time is limited, not only by the shortness of life but also still more by the business of life, we ought to be especially solicitous to employ what time we have to the greatest advantage. Before devoting years to some subject which...
Página 146 - I would remind you that all history shows that national progress of every kind depends upon certain individuals rather than upon the mass. Whether you take religion, or literature, or political government, or art, or commerce, in all these cases the new ideas, the great steps, have been made by individuals of superior quality and genius, who have, as it were, dragged the mass of the nation up one step to a higher level.
Página 139 - Schwab, president of the United States Steel Corporation, drove a coach as a boy, and then became a stakedriver at an iron works. Josiah Wedgwood started work when only eleven years old ; Arkwright, the father of our cotton industry, was never at school, Edison was engaged in selling papers when twelve years of age, and Sir Hiram Maxim was with a carriage builder when he was fourteen.