The Aims of Education & Other EssaysMacmillan, 1929 - 247 стор. |
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Сторінка 106 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, and cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
Сторінка 67 - In my dreams it is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.
Сторінка 22 - ... sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.
Сторінка 79 - Firsthand knowledge is the ultimate basis of intellectual life. To a large extent book-learning conveys second-hand information, and as such can never rise to the importance of immediate practice. Our goal is to see the immediate event of our lives as instances of our general ideas.
Сторінка 61 - Education is the guidance of the individual towards a comprehension of the art of life ; and by the art of life I mean the most complete achievement of varied activity, expressing the potentialities of that living creature in the face of its actual environment.
Сторінка 62 - It takes the various forms of wonder, of curiosity, of reverence, or worship, of tumultuous desire for merging personality in something beyond itself. This sense of value imposes on life incredible labours, and apart from it life sinks back into the passivity of its lower types.
Сторінка 10 - There is only one subject matter for education, and that is life in all its manifestations. Instead of this single unity, we offer children— algebra, from which nothing follows; geometry, from which nothing follows...
Сторінка 147 - Education is discipline for the adventure of life; research is intellectual adventure: and the universities should be homes of adventure shared in common by young and old.
Сторінка 105 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more.
Сторінка 105 - Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.