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Side 13
The evidence is complete that the effort not only to improve their intellectual culture but to penetrate their life with the true Christian spirit has , at least since the time of Arnold , been earnest and continuous .
The evidence is complete that the effort not only to improve their intellectual culture but to penetrate their life with the true Christian spirit has , at least since the time of Arnold , been earnest and continuous .
Side 34
Ir has been deemed desirable by those who have framed the regulations of this Summer Meeting to cause a brief survey to be taken of the principal influences which have affected intellectual progress in the century now coming to a close ...
Ir has been deemed desirable by those who have framed the regulations of this Summer Meeting to cause a brief survey to be taken of the principal influences which have affected intellectual progress in the century now coming to a close ...
Side 36
Reading and writing and needlework , with a little arithmetic , and diligent enforcement of the Cate- chism , and of church attendance satisfied the intellectual ideal of the ecclesiastical and other personages who maintained these ...
Reading and writing and needlework , with a little arithmetic , and diligent enforcement of the Cate- chism , and of church attendance satisfied the intellectual ideal of the ecclesiastical and other personages who maintained these ...
Side 37
The conception of popular education which dominated these schools does not appear to you or to me a very high one ; in fact they were rather designed to restrict than to encourage intellectual progress and activity .
The conception of popular education which dominated these schools does not appear to you or to me a very high one ; in fact they were rather designed to restrict than to encourage intellectual progress and activity .
Side 54
And though there are honourable exceptions , yet as a rule the intellectual aims and the consciousness of national as distin- guished from denominational requirements are not so high as in colleges of another type .
And though there are honourable exceptions , yet as a rule the intellectual aims and the consciousness of national as distin- guished from denominational requirements are not so high as in colleges of another type .
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Side 223 - ... has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Side 214 - O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind with moral and religious truth...
Side 143 - So complete was my father's reliance on the influence of reason over the minds of mankind, whenever it is allowed to reach them, that he felt as if all would be gained if the whole population were taught to read, if all sorts of opinions were allowed to be addressed to them by word and in writing, and if by means of the suffrage they could nominate a legislature to give effect to the opinions they adopted.
Side 224 - The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life. Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging...
Side 170 - He paused, as if revolving in his soul Some weighty matter ; then, with fervent voice And an impassioned majesty, exclaimed — " O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Rinding herself by statute ' to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains 1 See Note.
Side 5 - If, in the paths of the world, Stones might have wounded thy feet, Toil or dejection have tried Thy spirit, of that we saw Nothing - to us thou wast still Cheerful, and helpful, and firm! Therefore to thee it was given Many to save with thyself; And, at the end of thy day, O faithful shepherd! to come, Bringing thy sheep in thy hand.
Side 170 - technical instruction' shall mean instruction in the principles of science and art applicable to industries, and in the application of special branches of science and art to specific industries or employments.
Side 5 - But thou would'st not alone Be saved, my father ! alone Conquer and come to thy goal, Leaving the rest in the wild.
Side 22 - If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud; Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood : So foul and so fierce are their natures; But Thomas and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and harmless as doves or as lambs, Those lovely sweet innocent creatures.
Side 135 - I believe that the first development of thought in the child is very much disturbed by a wordy system of teaching, which is not adapted either to his faculties or the circumstances of his life. According to my experience, success depends upon whether what is taught to children commends itself to them as true, through being closely connected with their own personal observation and experience.