The War and EducationPrinceton University Press, 1919 - 87 páginas |
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Página 24 - Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Página 31 - Above all, the national basis is lacking. We must take the German as the foundation for the gymnasium; we ought to educate national young Germans and not young Greeks and Romans. We must depart entirely from the basis that has existed for centuries, — from the old monastic education of • the Middle Ages, where the standard was Latin with a little Greek added.
Página 27 - interesting," but it is always duty. Life is not a series of pleasant elective choices, but it has in it the element of stern compulsion, and most of all — When Duty whispers low, "Thou must." And it is another fact, not fancy, that obedience to duty, however hard and distasteful at first, yields a most "interesting...
Página 32 - ... plenty, and then also the elements of universal knowledge — as much as we can get. We must not forget that an exclusively American culture must tend either to absorb other systems by incorporation or domination, or, failing in that, to impair the vital unity of our international civilized freedom. IV It is great to be a true American; it is greater to be a true man or woman here or anywhere. "That all men everywhere may be free" was Lincoln's prayer. Can we not lay aside all prejudice and then...
Página 67 - ... an officers' corps of the nobility The temperate and careful character of Philip's dealings with the Athenian Demos shows that he pursued no ruthless policy of aggrandizement This serves admirably the purpose of training one in political thinking, helps to guard one against the influence of trivial talk about morality and politics, and makes one realize that such a conflict cannot be settled by international arbitration. It should be emphasized that Demosthenes was actuated in his condemnation...
Página 26 - immortal conflict," ceaseless and strenuous, "now going on and calling for marvelous vigilance" more loudly than ever. Ill What is the way to win ? This is the question that must be answered rightly if we are to keep faith with our country. There is just one way. It is to make the proved truths of experience the one basis for our efforts and the one test of all theories offered for our acceptance. It is the test of common sense. It is also the one scientific test, for science, as Huxley put it, is...
Página 30 - ... multiplication table? And what of "nature-study"? Are only American animals to be notist? Here is where the theory begins to crack. Our own language and history for the sake of our national unity ? Yes, in plenty, and then also the elements of universal knowledge — as much as we can get. We must not forget that an exclusively American culture must tend either to absorb other systems by incorporation or domination, or, failing in that, to impair the vital unity of our international civilized...
Página 28 - ... interesting" joy of human life, the joy of the hard-won fight, and leads to the highest freedom, the freedom of assured self-conquest. Is there anything our country needs more ? animate tools. They are human beings, with minds and hearts as well as hands. If in our just desire to prepare them for making their living we also unjustly fail to prepare them by good general schooling to make their lives better worth living, we shall create a huge proletariat of discontent to...
Página 52 - ... late, wrought fearful evil. In the latest perversion of its true use all the three major sciences have been dragged into the service of death. Physics, with chemistry helping, gave us the submarine assassin, chemistry the murderous gases, and biology furnished germs to poison man and beast in Roumania. Yet these things, devilish as the uses to which they were put, were not in themselves necessarily evil. Conceivably they might have been used for commendable ends ; the anthrax germ as an antitoxin,...
Página 8 - Those who are ready to move an indefinite distance along any of the diverging directions of elective freedom may well pause to ask whether the keen words of Descartes on progress in knowledge are not worth heeding in this connection: "It is better to go a short distance on the right road than a long distance on the wrong one." The love of freedom from control and of pleasure in our labor are splendid things. They are at once the charm and peril of student effort. The true freedom of the human spirit...