...proclaimed by Spencer in his 1 Davidson, "Rousseau," p. 177. 2 Op. cil., p. 176. famous statement, "To fit us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge," for to Plato this statement would have been acceptable, but to him "complete living" would have contemplated...

...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...

...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 li ving ' includes much more than ability in business. The State must set forth on a higher...

...The great question of life is how to live ; how to live in the widest sense; how to live completely. 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 So far as we are able...

...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...discharge; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function." Is Spencer as clear...

...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...discharge,- and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function. . . . Our first step...

...hampered by fewer restraints, and other means than punishments are used to govern him'.' He stated, 'To prepare us for complete living is the function...education has to discharge; and the only rational mode of judgement of any educational course is to judge in what degree it discharges such function.'4 According...

....... To utilize those resources for happiness that nature supplies .... how to live completely .... To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge. (Spencer, 1861: 6) and so on, melted away with the pressure for 'coverage' of the National Curriculum....

...must try to produce. — VIRGINIA GILDERSLEEVE, FROM HER BOOK MANY A GOOD CRUSADE (1954) To prepare for complete living is the function which education...discharge; and the only rational mode of judging of an education course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function. — HERBERT SPENCER, FROM...