Edward Livingston Youmans, Interpreter of Science for the People; A Sketch of His Life, with Selections from His Published Writings and Extracts from His Correspondence with Spencer, Huxley, Tyndall and Others
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Edward Livingston Youmans, Interpreter of Science for the People; A Sketch of His Life, with Selections from His Published Writings and Extracts from His Correspondence with Spencer, Huxley, Tyndall and Others

Edward Livingston Youmans, Interpreter of Science for the People; A Sketch of His Life, with Selections from His Published Writings and Extracts from His Correspondence with Spencer, Huxley, Tyndall and Others


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894. Excerpt: ... SELECT WRITINGS. i. MENTAL DISCIPLINE IN EDUCATION. All educational inquiries assume that man is individually improvable, and therefore collectively progressive. Through varied experiences he is slowly civilized, and there is a growth of knowledge with the course of ages. But while thought is ever advancing, it is the nature of institutions to fix the mental states of particular times; and there hence arises a tendency to conflict between growing ideas and the external arrangements which are designed to express and embody them. Thought refuses to be stationary; institutions refuse to change, and war is the consequence. This fact is familiarly illustrated in the case of government. Ideas and character, having outgrown the arbitrary institutions of the remoter past, there has arisen between them an antagonism, of the results of which modern history is full. So, too, religious conceptions having developed beyond the ecclesiastical organizations to which they at first gave rise, a struggle arose in the sixteenth century, which, resulting in the Protestant Reformation, has persisted under various aspects to the present time. And so it is also with the traditional systems of mental culture. Educational institutions which have been bequeathed to us by the past, and which may have been suited to their times, have fallen out of harmony with the intellectual necessities of modern life, and a conflict has arisen which is deepening in intensity with the rapid growth of knowledge and the general progress of society. The friends of educational improvement maintain that the system of culture which prevails in our higher institutions of learning, and which is limited chiefly to the acquisition of the mathematics, and of the ancient languages and literature, was shaped ag...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150659867
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 178
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150659866
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 327 gr


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