Now, the most important object of all educational schemes is to catch these exceptional people, and turn them to account for the good of society. Science - Página 364editado por - 1886Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1901 - 1076 páginas
...action. A small percentage of the population is born with special aptitude of some sort or another ; and the most important object of all educational schemes...people, and turn them to account for the good of society . . . and to put them into the position in which they can do the work for which they are specially... | |
| 1918 - 694 páginas
...keenest minds is no less disastrous in the end than to neglect the mediocre. If we agree with Huxley that "the most important object of all educational schemes...and turn them to account for the good of society", or with Lester F. Ward, that "the actual manufacture of great men, of the agents of civilization, of... | |
| 1884 - 328 páginas
...thirst for excellence which is called genius. Now it should be the aim of all educational schemes, to catch these exceptional people and turn them to...where they will crop up; like their opposites, the knaves and fools, they appear sometimes in the palace and sometimes in the hovel,- but the great thing... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 350 páginas
...that intensity of instinctive aptitude, that burning thirst for excellence, which is called genins. Now, the most important object of all educational...society. No man can say where they will crop up; like theiropposites, the fools and knaves, they appear sometimes in the palace, and sometimes in the hovel... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1887 - 622 páginas
...profitable or necessary for a few who have exceptional gifts for industrial pursuits. Mr. Huxley says that " the most important object of all educational schemes...and turn them to account for the good of society." Most earnestly I demur. Mr. Huxley confounds the object of some educational schemes with those of all... | |
| Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1908 - 904 páginas
...lower, where they haiaBfno chance to work to any purpose. As Professor Huxley said of exceptional men, "no man can say where they will crop up ; like their...sometimes in the palace and sometimes in the hovel." n But this, while it completely overthrows the prevalent view i that social classes are based on natural... | |
| Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell - 1900 - 344 páginas
...excellent quality, a desire for excellence, or with special aptitude of some sort or another. . . . Now, the most important object of all educational...will crop up ; like their opposites, the fools and the knaves, they appear sometimes in the palace, and sometimes in the hovel; but the great thing to... | |
| 1901 - 624 páginas
...some sort or other. . . . Now, the most important object of all educational schemes ie to catch those exceptional people and turn them to account for the...No man can say where they will crop up; like their opposite*, the fools and the knaves, they appear sometimes in the palace, sometimes in the hovel: but... | |
| Edward Clodd - 1902 - 278 páginas
...the way in which the wealth is distributed and its effect on the moral character of the nation." 1 No man can say where they will crop up ; like their opposites, the fools and the knaves, they appear sometimes in the palace and sometimes in the hovel ; but the great thing to... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1920 - 202 páginas
...capacities of specially gifted men. "The most important object of all educational schemes," he said, "is to catch these exceptional people, and turn them to account for the good of society . . . to keep these glorious sports of Nature from being either corrupted by luxury or starved by poverty,... | |
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