 | 1899 - 430 էջ
...urge it. "It would be utterly contrary to the beautiful economy of nature," says Mr. Herbert Spencer, "if one kind of culture were needed for the gaining...and another kind were needed as a mental gymnastic." With this the Committee of Fifteen seem to be in entire agreement, when they affirm that in the choice... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 էջ
...Having found what is best for the one end, we have by implication found what is best for the other. We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those...and another kind were needed as a mental gymnastic. Every where throughout creation we find faculties developed through the performance of those functions... | |
 | 1859 - 620 էջ
...Having found what is best for the one end, we have by implication found what is best for the other. We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those...and another kind were needed as a mental gymnastic. Every where throughout creation we find faculties developed through the performance of those functions... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 էջ
...they occupy the leisure pari of education. TBS KNOWLEDGE BBQUI81TI FOR PURPOSES OF IHSCII-MN K. 7. We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those...best fitted for strengthening the faculties. It would bo utterly contrary to the beautiful economy of Nature, if one kind of culture were needed for the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 904 էջ
...occupy Hit leisure port of education. THE K MMVI.KI «,:•; REQUISITE FOR PURPOSES Of DISCIPLINE. 7. We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those classes of facts which are moat useful for regulating conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 902 էջ
...they occupy the leisure part of education. THE KNOWLEDGE REQUISITE FOR PURPOSES ОГ DISCIPLINE. 7. We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those classes of facta which are most useful for regulating conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1864 - 472 էջ
...sufficiently." And Herbert Spencer, that clear-sighted and plainspoken writer, says, to the same purpose, "It would be utterly contrary to the beautiful economy...and another kind were needed as a mental gymnastic. Everywhere throughout creation we find faculties developed through the performance of those functions... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1868 - 360 էջ
...Spencer dismisses briefly. ' It would be utterly contrary to the beautiful economy of nature,' he says, ' if one kind of culture were needed for the gaining...and another kind were needed as a mental gymnastic.' But it seems to me that different subjects must be used to train the faculties at different stages... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1891 - 760 էջ
...recent years have given evidences of a departure from this position, and the Spencer i an doctrine "that the acquirement of those classes of facts which...exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties," is now widely accepted as true so far as it relates to elementary study, both in its direct and inverse... | |
 | 1872 - 900 էջ
...Having found what is best for the one end, we have by implication found what is best for the other. We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those...and another kind were needed as a mental gymnastic. Everywhere throughout creation we find faculties developed through the performance of those functions... | |
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We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those classes of facts which are most useful for regulating conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties. It would be utterly contrary to the beautiful economy of Nature,... 
