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... boy who cannot find wherewithal to feed his mind has no mind to feed . Such boys are not uncommon , nor are they peculiar to this country or to the public schools , which after all do more for them than any other kind of school . Do ...
... boy who cannot find wherewithal to feed his mind has no mind to feed . Such boys are not uncommon , nor are they peculiar to this country or to the public schools , which after all do more for them than any other kind of school . Do ...
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... boys have a sturdy power of resisting excessive mental worry , or the result of such teaching would be to fill ... boy is compelled to learn is just now the reform most needed in education . A boy's brain is not , any more than his ...
... boys have a sturdy power of resisting excessive mental worry , or the result of such teaching would be to fill ... boy is compelled to learn is just now the reform most needed in education . A boy's brain is not , any more than his ...
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... boys with a love of history . Since the days , however , when Edward Thring adopted the above excellent system the teaching of modern history in all schools has to some extent been instituted , and , owing to the demands made by the ...
... boys with a love of history . Since the days , however , when Edward Thring adopted the above excellent system the teaching of modern history in all schools has to some extent been instituted , and , owing to the demands made by the ...
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... boys in history . In far too many instances Greek and Latin history is displaced for medieval and modern history , and the Greek and Latin languages for French and German . Too often a boy is crammed with facts in English and modern ...
... boys in history . In far too many instances Greek and Latin history is displaced for medieval and modern history , and the Greek and Latin languages for French and German . Too often a boy is crammed with facts in English and modern ...
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... boy to secure a History Scholarship at one of the Universities , the teachers at most of our public schools ought to reconsider their methods . Το begin with , it is an egregious blunder to throw aside all the boy's knowledge of Greek ...
... boy to secure a History Scholarship at one of the Universities , the teachers at most of our public schools ought to reconsider their methods . Το begin with , it is an egregious blunder to throw aside all the boy's knowledge of Greek ...
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Page 282 - I call therefore a complete and generous Education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 63 - Because a man has shop to mind In time and place, since flesh must live, Needs spirit lack all life behind, All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive, All loves except what trade can give?
Page 156 - I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal, That's born into the world alive, Is either a little Liberal, Or else a little Conservative!
Page 146 - I cannot deny that you have an anxious duty, — a duty which some might suppose was too heavy for your years. But it seems to me the nobler as well as the truer way of stating the case, to say that it is the great privilege of this and other such institutions, to anticipate the common time of manhood ; that by their whole training they fit the character for manly duties at an age when, under another system, such duties would be impracticable...
Page 105 - Let our artists rather be those who are gifted to discern the true nature of beauty and grace; then will our youth dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, will meet the sense like a breeze, and insensibly draw the soul even in childhood into harmony with the beauty of reason.
Page 295 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 46 - ... all the while this eternal court is open to you, with its society, wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, the chosen, and the mighty, of every place and time? Into that you may enter always; in that you may take fellowship and rank according to your wish ; from that, once entered into it, you can never be...
Page 46 - Nam ceterae neque temporum sunt, neque aetatum omnium, neque locorum : haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant ; secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent ; delectant domi, non impediunt foris ; pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.
Page 160 - There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night — Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote — " Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 158 - Young men must be young men," as the worthy head of your college said to me touching a case of rustication. " My dear sir," said I, " I only wish to heaven they would be ; but as for my own nephews, they seem to me a sort of hobbadi-hoy cherub, too big to be innocent, and too simple for anything else. They're full of the notion of the world being so wicked, and of their taking a higher line, as they call it. I only fear they'll never take any line at all.