Means and Ends of EducationMcClurg, 1895 - 232 páginas |
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... receive an unsatisfactory reply : for how , except by trial , is it possible to say who will suit whom ? Those whose friendship would be valuable might , for whatever cause , be disagreeable to him , as the greatest and noblest may be ...
... receive an unsatisfactory reply : for how , except by trial , is it possible to say who will suit whom ? Those whose friendship would be valuable might , for whatever cause , be disagreeable to him , as the greatest and noblest may be ...
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... receives the forms of time and space , the prin- ciple of causality , color , warmth , and beauty . Were there no mind , there would be no world . The end of man is the pursuit of perfection , through communion with God , his fellows ...
... receives the forms of time and space , the prin- ciple of causality , color , warmth , and beauty . Were there no mind , there would be no world . The end of man is the pursuit of perfection , through communion with God , his fellows ...
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... receive credit for more ability and virtue than they have . An exaggerated reputation may nourish conceit or win favor ; but the wise and the good put away conceit , and desire not favors which are granted from mistaken notions . " I ...
... receive credit for more ability and virtue than they have . An exaggerated reputation may nourish conceit or win favor ; but the wise and the good put away conceit , and desire not favors which are granted from mistaken notions . " I ...
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... received . When we have said a thousand things in praise of education , we must , at last , come back to the fundamental fact that nearly everything depends on the kind of people of whom we are descended , and on the kind of family in ...
... received . When we have said a thousand things in praise of education , we must , at last , come back to the fundamental fact that nearly everything depends on the kind of people of whom we are descended , and on the kind of family in ...
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... receiving arms , as raindrops fall into the water and mingle with it and are lost . No sight is so pathetic as that of a vast throng seeking to enjoy themselves . The hope- lessness of the task is visible on all their thou- sand faces ...
... receiving arms , as raindrops fall into the water and mingle with it and are lost . No sight is so pathetic as that of a vast throng seeking to enjoy themselves . The hope- lessness of the task is visible on all their thou- sand faces ...
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Página 136 - Or bow above the tempest bent; Built of tears and sacred flames, And virtue reaching to its aims ; Built of furtherance and pursuing, Not of spent deeds, but of doing. Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored...
Página 102 - For woman is not undevelopt man But diverse: could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble...
Página 212 - ... with miserable deformities on the side of morals, with a hollow profession of Christianity, and a heathen code of ethics, — I say, at least they can boast of a succession of heroes and statesmen, of literary men and philosophers, of men conspicuous for great natural virtues, for habits of business, for knowledge of life, for practical judgment, for cultivated tastes, for accomplishments, who have made England what it is, — able to subdue the earth, able to domineer over Catholics.
Página 107 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope will forward it; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate.
Página 4 - None of us yet know, for none of us have yet been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought— proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure-houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us — houses built without hands, for our souls to live in.
Página 106 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Página 207 - That perfection of the Intellect, which is the result of Education, and its beau ideal, to be imparted to individuals in their respective measures, is the clear, calm, accurate vision and comprehension of all things, as far as the finite mind can embrace them, each in its place, and with its own characteristics upon it. It is almost prophetic from its knowledge of history ; it is almost heart-searching from its knowledge of human nature ; it has almost supernatural charity from its freedom from littleness...
Página 4 - But here the main skill and groundwork will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue, stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages...
Página 155 - To do this effectually it is necessary to be fully possessed of only two beliefs : the first that the order of nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an extent which is practically unlimited ; the second, that our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events.
Página 60 - No book is worth anything which is not worth much ; nor is it serviceable until it has been read and re-read, and loved and loved again, and marked...