Educational Times: A Review of Ideas and Methods, Volume 66

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S. Birch, 1913

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Page 116 - ... we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and strength, striving against whatever was mean and unmanly and unrighteous in our little world. It was not the cold, clear voice of one giving advice and warning from serene heights to those who were struggling and sinning below, but the warm, living voice of one who was fighting for us and by our sides, and calling on us to help him and ourselves and one another.
Page 197 - For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.
Page 244 - The Making of CharaCter: some EduCational AspeCts of Ethics. By JOHN MACCUNN, Balliol College, Oxford, Professor of Philosophy in University College, Liverpool.
Page 234 - Commonwealth, as an attempt to establish a separate bloc. Let us beware lest in changing the form we lose the substance ; or, for appearance's sake, sacrifice reality. I am told that, somewhere, over the grave of one who did not know when he was well off, there is the following epitaph: "I was well; I wanted to be better; and here I am.
Page 45 - Facilities are afforded for research in scientific and other subjects. Women may attend the Classes in Arts, Science. Divinity, Law, and Music, and they are admitted to graduation in Arts, Science, Law, Medicine, and Music, the training for Degrees in Medicine being afforded by well equipped extra-academical Schools.
Page 118 - And when they are filling in the work, as I conceive, they will often turn their eyes upwards and downwards: I mean that they will first look at absolute justice and beauty and temperance, and again at the human copy; and will mingle and temper the various elements of life into the image of a man; and this they will conceive according to that other image, which, when existing among men, Homer calls the form and likeness of God.
Page 148 - Eugenics is a virile creed, full of hopefulness, and appealing to many of the noblest feelings of our nature.
Page 95 - EXCERPTA FACILIA. A Second Latin Translation Book. Containing a Collection of Stories from various Latin Authors. With Notes at end and a Vocabulary.
Page 266 - While everyone was admiring the progress of my idiots, I was searching for the reasons which could keep the happy healthy children of the common schools on so low a plane that they could be equalled in tests of intelligence by my unfortunate pupils.
Page 215 - A TEXT-BOOK OF PRACTICAL PHYSICS. A Book of Reference for the Student working in a Physical Laboratory. With 278 Illustrations. Large crown 8vo, 9s.

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