A College Fetich: An Address Delivered Before the Harvard Chapter of the Fraternity of the Phi Beta Kappa, in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, June 28, 1883Lee and Shepard, 1883 - 71페이지 |
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66 페이지 - I must avow my distinct conviction, that our present system of exclusively classical education as a whole, and carried out as we do carry it out, is a deplorable failure. I say it, knowing that the words are strong words, but not without having considered them well ; and I say it because that system has been ' weighed in the balance and found wanting.
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68 페이지 - I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming-.
68 페이지 - ... that asinine feast of sowthistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age.
5 페이지 - Such training as I got, useful for the struggle, I got after, instead of before graduation, and it came hard ; while I never have been able — and now, no matter how long I may live, I never shall be able — to overcome some great disadvantages which the superstitions and wrong theories and worse practices of my Alma Mater inflicted upon me.
23 페이지 - Thomas Jefferson, — and I must confess to very much preferring John Adams in his easy letter-writing undress, to John Adams on his deadlearning stilts; he seems a wiser, a more genuine man. He is answering a letter from Jefferson, who had in the shades of Monticello been reviving his Greek: "Lord! Lord! what can I do with so much Greek? When I was of your age, young man, that is, seven or eight years ago [he was then nearly seventy-nine, and his correspondent a little over seventy], I felt a kind...
70 페이지 - There is no study that could prove more successful in producing often thorough idleness and vacancy of mind, parrot-like repetition and sing-song knowledge, to the abeyance and destruction of the intellectual powers, as well as to the loss and paralysis of the outward senses, than our traditional study and idolatry of language.
19 페이지 - Greek grammar by heart than in learning by heart any other equally difficult and, to a boy, unintelligible book. As a mere work of memorizing, Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason" would be at least as good. In the next place, unintelligent memorizing is at best a most questionable educational method. For one, I utterly disbelieve in it. It never did me anything but harm ; and learning by heart the Greek grammar did me harm — a great deal of harm. While I was doing it, the observing and reflective powers...
65 페이지 - In one word, we may say that they find it to be a failure, — a failure, even if tested by those better specimens, not exceeding one third of the whole, who go up to the universities. Though a very large number of these have literally nothing to show for the results of their school-hours, from childhood to manhood, but a knowledge of Latin and Greek, with a little English and arithmetic, we have here the strongest testimony that their knowledge of the former is most inaccurate, and their knowledge...
28 페이지 - In these days of repeating-rifles, Harvard sent me and my class-mates out into the strife equipped with shields and swords and javelins," said Charles Francis Adams, Jr., in his remarkable Phi Beta Kappa address. "We cannot continue in this age full of modern artillery to turn out our boys to do battle in it, equipped only with the sword and shield of the ancient gladiator," says Huxley, using the same striking figure. Sir...