...should be made to apply in every establishment, from the primary school to the university, is this — Education should represent the existing state of knowledge. But in America this golden rule is disregarded, especially in the case of the higher establishments. What is termed classical learning arrogates to...

...important things. It finds means to appropriate, practically, all collegiate honours. This evil has arisen from the circumstance that our system was imported...country in the sixteenth century; meritorious enough and justifiable enough in that day, but obsolete in this. The vague impression to which I have above...

...It finds means to appropriate, practically, all collegiate honours. This evil has arisen from th» circumstance that our system was imported from England....country in the sixteenth century; meritorious enough and justifiable enough in that day, but obsolete in this. The vague impression to which I have above...

...should be made to apply in every establishment, from the primary school to the university, is this — Education should represent the existing state of knowledge. But in America this golden rule is disregarded, especially in the case of the higher establishments. What is termed classical learning arrogates to...

...dissatisfaction at the narrowness of the plan of teaching now adopted:'— SIR C. LYELL, MAFRS (Id. p. 121). " Education should represent the existing state of knowledge. But in America this golden rule is disregarded. . . . What is termed classical learning arrogates to itself a space that excludes much more important...

...made to apply in every establishment, from the primary school to the university, is this—Education should represent the existing state of knowledge. But in America this golden rule is disregarded, especially in the case of the higher establishments. What is termed classical learning arrogates to...

...made to apply in every establishment, from the primary school to the university, is this—Education should represent the existing state of knowledge. But in America this golden rule is disregarded, especially in the case of the higher establishments. What is termed classical learning arrogates to...

...History of the Intellectual Development of Europe," and now of the University of New York, we have this: "Education should represent the existing state of...This arises from the circumstance that our system wae imported from England. It is a remnant of the tone of thought of that country in the sixteenth...

...of the Intellectual Development of Europe," and now of the University of New York, we have this : " Education should represent the existing state of knowledge,...appropriates to itself a space that excludes more iml>ortant things. This arises from the circumstance that our system was imported from England. It...

...Paris Universal Exposition of 1867, submitted to William H. Seward, Secretary of State," pages 87, 88: "Education should represent the existing state of...the tone of thought of that country in the sixteenth century—meritorious enough in that day, but not in this. The vague impression that such pursuits,...