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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II AN APPEAL TO HEADMASTERS More than twenty years ago Matthew Arnold wrote: The want of the idea of science, of systematic knowledge, is ... the capital want ... of English education and of English life. The same statement may be made to-day without fear of contradiction. And yet, during the latter part of our century, science has revolutionised the world and its charms as well as its claims on our attention have been eloquently advocated by a multitude of speakers. Arnold implied that the responsibility for the condition of affairs he deplored rested with our schoolmasters. It is to be feared that they have done little in the interval to exonerate themselves: if not obdurate in resisting change, they have at least made no proper effort to bring it about. Why is this ? A writer on China has remarked: The contemplation of China is discouraging?to think it got so far so long ago and yet has got no further ! The Emperor Hoang-li, who lived 200 B.c., may be supposed to have foreseen the deadening effect that government by literary men has upon a nation, for he burnt all their books except those that treat of practical arts. May not a clue to our failure to appreciate science befound in this passage ? For is it not the case that we are at the stage of being governed by literary men ?that those who have the charge of the education of the youth of the country are nearly all literary men; that most of our youth are allowed to grow up as literary men; that our Parliament is full of literary men; and that our Press is a purely literary organisation ? Do we not pay so little attention to studies of practical arts as to justify the statement that they are disregarded by all but the very few among us ? And are not the consequences very serious ? As men of the world we ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458939845
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 132
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458939847
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 249 gr


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