Present College Questions: Six Papers Read Before the National Educational Association, at the Sessions Held in Boston, July 6 and 7, 1903D. Appleton, 1903 - 105 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 12 - A cultivated man should express himself by tongue or pen with some accuracy and elegance ; therefore linguistic training has had great importance in the idea of cultivation. The conditions of the educated world have, however, changed so profoundly since the revival of learning in Italy that our inherited ideas concerning training in language and literature have required large modifications. In the year 1400 it might have been said with truth that there was but one language of scholars, the Latin,...
Σελίδα 16 - What portion or portions 15 of the infinite human store are most proper to the cultivated man? The answer must be, those which enable him, with his individual personal qualities, to deal best and sympathize most with Nature and with other human beings. It is here that the passion for service must fuse with the passion for knowledge.
Σελίδα 40 - There are fundamental truths that lie at the bottom, the basis upon which a great many others rest, and in which they have their consistency. These are teeming truths, rich in store, with which they furnish the mind, and, like the lights of heaven, are •not only beautiful and entertaining in themselves, but give light and evidence to other things, that without them could not be seen or known.
Σελίδα 25 - Let us as teachers accept no single element or kind of culture as the one essential ; let us remember that the best fruits of real culture are an open mind, broad sympathies, and respect for all the diverse achievements of the human intellect at whatever stage of development they may actually be — the stage of fresh discovery, or bold exploration, or complete conquest.
Σελίδα 91 - ... that of distinct separation between college and university methods. To each and all of these the proposition stands opposed. Following the example of one of the speakers this morning, I would suggest that the plan which has been in operation at the University of Chicago for nearly ten years has seemed to many of us to meet in large measure the demands called for this morning. This plan provides a course of four years and a course of two years. It permits students of exceptional ability to do...
Σελίδα 91 - With the completion of the two-year course a certificate is given, granting the title of Associate in the University. This, for the present, is sufficient in the way of a degree. To students who maintain a standing of the highest grade certain concessions are made. The details of the plan have been worked out as experience has indicated the need.
Σελίδα 31 - We must look the possibility of failure firmly in the face, and consider well that the Power we attack is great and the intelligence which guides it vigorous, that the contest is begun less in regard to the probability of success than to the certainty that without it destruction is not to be avoided...
Σελίδα 19 - ... hypothesis or principle. The educated world needs to recognize the new varieties of constructive imagination. Dante gave painful years to picturing on many pages of his immortal comedy of hell, purgatory, and paradise the most horrible monsters and tortures, and the most loathsome and noisome abominations that his fervid imagination could concoct out of his own bitter experiences and the manners and customs of his cruel times. Sir Charles Lyell spent many laborious years in searching for and...
Σελίδα 17 - The imagination is the greatest of human powers, no matter in what field it works — in art or literature, in mechanical invention, in science, government, commerce, or religion ; and the training of the imagination is, therefore, far the most important part of education. I use the term "constructive imagination" because that implies the creation or building of a new thing.
Σελίδα 5 - ... courageous but gentle; not finished, but perfecting. All authorities agree that true culture is not exclusive, sectarian, or partisan, but the very opposite; that it is not to be attained in solitude, but in society; and that the best atmosphere for culture is that of a school, university, academy, or church, where many pursue together the ideals of truth, righteousness, and love.