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Strona 165 - The ideal college education seems to me to be one where a student learns things that he is not going to use in after life, by methods that he is going to use.
Strona 13 - ... canvassing the girls for votes, spending hours at sorority houses for votes — spending hours at sorority houses for sentiment; talking rubbish unceasingly, thinking rubbish, revamping rubbish— rubbish about high jinks, rubbish about low, rubbish about rallies, rubbish about pseudo-civic honor, rubbish about girls; — what margin of leisure is left for the one activity of the college, which is study?
Strona 59 - Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting glory, out of his mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions or causes moving him thereunto, and all to the praise of his glorious grace.
Strona 134 - He heads his class at raffia work And also takes the lead At making dinky paper boats — But I wish that he could read. They teach him physiology And, oh, it chills our hearts .To hear our prattling innocent Mix up his Inward parts. He also learns astronomy And names the stars by night — Of course he's very up-to-date, But I wish that he could write. They teach him things botanical They teach him how to draw; He babbles of mythology And gravitation's law; And the discoveries of science With him...
Strona 70 - He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do : and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
Strona 96 - Especially downtrodden of men is our heritage from antiquity. Man will always be the heir of all the ages. To satisfy him with the heritage of a recent yesterday, the modern languages and literatures, modern history and poetry and economics strive in vain. He remains the child of the ages, but a child deprived of his full heritage — deprived, by a constructive inhibition in our schools, of the imaginative, moral, and historical training of the Bible, and of the inestimable riches of its literature...
Strona 28 - ... of a profession, it not only misses the liberal equipment necessary for the ultimate mastery of life, but indirectly diverts the general scope of education from its true ideals. The spirit of the Renaissance, says a modern historian of poetry, is portrayed in a picture by Moretto. It is of a young Venetian noble.
Strona 18 - Athletics, meanwhile, which should play a necessary part in the physical, and therefore spiritual, development of all students, are relegated to ten per cent of the students. The rest assist — on the bleachers. The ninety per cent are killing two birds with one stone. They are taking second-hand exercise ; and, by their grotesque and infantile applause, they are displaying what they call their "loyalty.
Strona 19 - West, social standing means no such thing: it means the position achieved by prominence in non-academic or "campus" activities. And in student esteem such prominence cuts a far more important figure than that of either wealth or scholarship. Such prominence has been gaining ground for fifteen years. So long as the social pressure of the university is toward mundane pursuits, it will be vain to expect the student to achieve distinction in that for which the university stands. This false standard of...
Strona 36 - That 314 youths, nearly all trained in our costly public schools, with an average of almost ten years' attendance (supplemented in the case of one-third of their number by private schooling, and, in the case of 43 per cent by college training) should show 84 per cent of failure and the various deficiencies analyzed above is surely a state of affairs that should make the judicious grieve and our educators sit up and take notice.