...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 which education has .to discharge. —HERBERT SPENCER. The aim of education is to draw all the powers of the boy out on every side of...

...JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET Sixp Nett SCHOOL IA Monthly Record of Educational Thought and Progress " To prepare us for complete living is the function which Education has ta discharge." — HERBERT SPENCER. VOL. IX. No. 50. FEBRUARY 1908 6d. nett Contents PAGE PRACTICE...

...special problem is — the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances. . . . To prepare us for complete living is the function...discharge; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is to judge in what degree it discharges such function." This preparation for...

...ulterior object of state intervention in education. Herbert Spencer's aphorism is appropriate here : 'To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ' ; and ' complete living ' includes much more than ability in business. The State must set forth on a higher...

...is true, in order to do what is right." And Herbert Spencer means the same thing when he says : ' ' To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge." And since the essence of life as far as we can know it is " Res ponse to the order of nature," the higher...

...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,...

...zielen. Das ergibt sich schon aus dem worte Spencer's, das die herausgeber als motto gewählt haben: "To prepare us for complete living is the function which Education has to discharge." Der erste, von Sir Philip Magnus geschriebene leitartikel ist denn auch Herbert Spencer als Pädagogen...

...needful for us to team, is, by consequence, the great thing which education has to teach. To prepare .-.s for complete living is the function which education has to discharge : and the only radical mode of judging of any educational course, is, to judge in what degree it discharges such functions....

...and since every reader is at least as 1 We may recall the aphorism in the world-famous Education : "To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge." ' Studies in Religion and Literature, Chapman & Hall, 1904, p. 33. 1 Spencer defines conduct as " the...

...modify or control that environment. It is first a matter of principles and second a matter of methods." "To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge," says Herbert Spencer, "and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course, is to judge...