CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 1 OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE FOR THE CHILDREN I.—A GROWING TIME Meals out of Doors.—… On fine days when it is warm enough to sit out with wraps, why should not tea and breakfast, everything but a hot dinner, be served out of doors? For we are an overwrought generation, running to […]
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CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 1. Preliminary PART I SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS Not the least sign of the higher status they have gained, is the growing desire for work that obtains amongst educated women. The world wants the work of such women; and presently, as education becomes more general, we shall see all women with the capacity
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CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 1 Chapter 7 VII.—‘THE REIGN OF LAW’ IN EDUCATION The reason why education effects so much less than it should effect is just this—that in nine cases out of ten, sensible good parents trust too much to their common sense and their good intentions, forgetting that common sense must be at the
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Chapter IV THE BASIS OF NATIONAL STRENGTH A LIBERAL EDUCATION FROM A NATIONAL STANDPOINT KNOWLEDGE Part VIKNOWLEDGE IN LITERARY FORM I have so far urged that knowledge is necessary to men, and that, in the initial stages, it must be conveyed through a literary medium, whether it be knowledge of physics or of Letters, because
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Chapter IV THE BASIS OF NATIONAL STRENGTH A LIBERAL EDUCATION FROM A NATIONAL STANDPOINT KNOWLEDGE Part VIKNOWLEDGE IN LITERARY FORM I have so far urged that knowledge is necessary to men, and that, in the initial stages, it must be conveyed throughp.334a literary medium, whether it be knowledge of physics or of Letters, because
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Chapter IV THE BASIS OF NATIONAL STRENGTH A LIBERAL EDUCATION FROM A NATIONAL STANDPOINT Part IV EDUCATION AND THE FULLNESS OF LIFE … a misguiding theory neatly put is more dangerous than an ill-example. We are tired of the man who claims to live his life at the general expense, of the girl who will
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Chapter IV Part V EDUCATION AND THE FULLNESS OF LIFE “I must live my life!” said the notorious bandit who before the War terrorized Paris; and we have heard the sort of cant often, even before The Doll’s House gave to “self-expression” the dignity of a cult; nevertheless, the brigand Bonnot has done an
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Chapter IV THE BASIS OF NATIONAL STRENGTH A LIBERAL EDUCATION FROM A NATIONAL STANDPOINT KNOWLEDGE Part IV NEW AND OLD CONCEPTIONS OF KNOWLEDGE I have so far advanced that “knowledge” is undefined and probably indefinable; that it is a state out of which persons may pass and into which they may return, but never a
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Chapter IV Part IV NEW AND OLD CONCEPTIONS OF KNOWLEDGE I have so far advanced that “knowledge” is undefined and probably indefinable; that it is a state out of which persons may pass and into which they may return, but never a store upon which they may draw; that knowledge-hunger is as universal as bread-hunger;
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CONDENSED Volume 1 Part 1. Chapter 6 VI.—CONDITIONS OF HEALTHY BRAIN-ACTIVITY Having just glanced at the wide region of forbidden ground, we are prepared to consider what it is, definitely and positively, that the mother owes to her child under the name of Education. And first of all, the more educable powers of the child—his
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