A Brief Course in the History of EducationMacmillan, 1907 - 409 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
activities æsthetic Alcuin Aristotle Athenian basis became Boethius Cassiodorus cation character characteristic chief child Christian Church Cicero classical Comenius conception of education conduct culture curriculum dialectic discipline dominant early educa element elementary emphasis ephebic formal given grammar Greek education Greek language gymnastic hence humanistic ideal ideas important individual influence institutions instruction intel intellectual interests Isocrates John the Scot knowledge language later Latin learning literary literature logical master means ment method Middle Ages modern monasteries monastic monasticism monks moral movement nature Old Greek organization palæstra period Petrarch philosophical physical Plato political possessed practical principles Quintilian Reformation religion religious Renaissance rhetorical Roman education Roscellinus Saracen scholastic scholasticism schools sciences scientific sixteenth century social society Socrates sophists Spartan spirit subjects teachers teaching tendency term thought tion tional treatise universities virtue writings youth
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Página 218 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Página 373 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Página 260 - A SOUND mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world : he that has these two, has little more to wish for ; and he that wants either of them, will be but little the better for any thing else.
Página 209 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues...
Página 210 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Página 372 - It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too, of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This, it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.
Página 354 - How to live ? that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem, is — the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances. In what way to treat the body ; in what way to treat the mind ; in what way to manage our affairs ; in what way to bring up a family ; in what way to behave as a citizen ; in what way to utilize all those...
Página 354 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Página 166 - We call those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man; those studies by which we attain and practice virtue and wisdom,- that education which calls forth, trains, and develops those highest gifts of body and mind which ennoble men and which are rightly judged to rank next in dignity to virtue only...
Página 261 - ... of shifting. All other considerations and accomplishments should give way and be postponed to this. This is the solid and substantial good, which tutors should not only read lectures, and talk of; but the labour and art of education should furnish the mind with, and fasten there, and never cease till the young man had a true relish of it, and placed his strength, his glory, and his pleasure in it.