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View of the System of Education at Present Pursued in the Schools and Universities of Scotland; With an Appendix Containing Communications Relative to the University of Cambridge, School of Westminster

View of the System of Education at Present Pursued in the Schools and Universities of Scotland; With an Appendix Containing Communications Relative to the University of Cambridge, School of Westminster


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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1813. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... LETTER VI. i DEAR SIR, A BEGAN my last letter by observing, that Logic follows immediately after the study of Greek, in three of our Universities; and that in the fourth it is postponed until the last year of the academical career.--For the information of such as are not acquainted with the detail of our education, it may be proper to state, that what is taught under this name in Scotland is not at all connected with the Dialectics of Aristotle or with any artificial system of reasoning whatsoever. Our logical course embraces merely the more simple doctrines of pneumatology, an analysis of the human mind according to the principles of Dr Reid, and afterwards extends to general grammar, the laws of composition, taste, and criticism, A sketch of the Aristotelian logic is indeed usually given, when the attention of the student comes to be H directed to the faculties of judgment and reasoning; but, except in so far as the analysis of the mental powers has a connection with their use in the various acts or habits of the understanding, which we denominate intellectual or logical processes, the business of this class is quite misnamed, and has a closer affinity to moral science than to logic, properly so called. Whether such subjects are the best suited to the previous acquirementsof the students, andaremost likely to lay a solid foundation for future knowledge and to beget habits of accurate investigation, I am not called upon to decide. We shall therefore proceed to the proper business of this epistle, which' is, to exhibit the manner of teaching the above branches in Edinburgh and Glasgow. In the former of these cities, the professor of logic teaches one hour a-day, which, with very trifling exceptions, is spent in pronouncing a lecture to a class of two hundr...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781458905260
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 46
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458905268
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 100 gr


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