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" ... poorest boy at every turn, and yet we educate him in such a manner that he shall enter the world as ignorant of the existence of the methods and facts of science as the day he was born. The modern world is full of artillery ; and we turn out our children... "
Bulletin - Page 271
1917
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The Culture Demanded by Modern Life: A Series of Addresses and Arguments on ...

Edward Livingston Youmans - Education - 1867 - 504 pages
...is full of artillery; and we turn out our children to do battle in it, equipped with the shield and sword of an ancient gladiator. Posterity will cry...longer, our own consciences will cry shame on us. It is my firm conviction that the only way to remedy it is, to make the elements of physical science...
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Modern Culture, Its True Aims and Requirements: A Series of Addresses and ...

Modern culture - Culture - 1867 - 458 pages
...is full of artillery; and we turn out our children to do battle in it, equipped with the shield and sword of an ancient gladiator. Posterity will cry...longer, our own consciences will cry shame on us. It is my firm conviction that the only way to remedy it is, to make the elements of physical science...
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On Some Defects in Public School Education: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal ...

Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 80 pages
...at the end of all that education." — DR. M. FARADAY (Evidence before Public School Commission}. " Posterity will cry shame on us if we do not remedy...own consciences will cry shame on us." — PROFESSOR HUXLEY (Modern Culture, p. 122). " There is no obvious relation between a memory well stocked with...
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On Some Defects in Public School Education: A Lecture Delivered at the Royal ...

Frederic William Farrar - Classical education - 1867 - 78 pages
...ignorance at the end of all that education."—DR. M. FARADAY (Evidence before Public School Commission). " Posterity will cry shame on us if we do not remedy...years longer our own consciences will cry shame on us."—PROFESSOR HUXLEY (Modern Culture, p. 122). "There is no obvious relation between a memory well...
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Nature, Volume 94

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1915 - 834 pages
...is full of artillery : and we turn our children out to do battle in it equipped with the shield and sword of an ancient gladiator. " Posterity will cry...longer, our own consciences will cry shame on us." These words were uttered in 1861. Now, after more than fifty years, not twenty merely, we still go...
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Nature, Volume 94

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1915 - 886 pages
...is full of artillery : and we turn our children out to do battle in it equipped with the shield and sword of an ancient gladiator. "Posterity will cry...not remedy this deplorable state of things. Nay, if u>e live twenty years longer, our own consciences will cry shame oil us." These words were uttered...
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Lay sermons, addresses and reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...is full of artillery ; and we turn out our children to do battle in it, equipped with the shield and sword of an ancient gladiator. Posterity will cry...longer, our own consciences will cry shame on us. It is my firm conviction that the only way to remedy it is, to make the elements of physical science...
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The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal ..., Volume 29

Education - 1880 - 472 pages
...is full of artillery ; and we turn out our children to do battle in it, equipped with the shield and sword of an ancient gladiator. Posterity will cry...we do not remedy this deplorable state of things." " It is my firm conviction," says Huxley, " that the only way to remedy it, is to make the elements...
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Science, Volume 47

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1918 - 676 pages
...existence of the methods and facts of science as the day he was born. The modern world is full oí artillery, and we turn our children out to do battle...will cry shame on us. Professor Armstrong proceeds, Now after more than fifty years, not twenty merely, we still go naked and unashamed of oar ignorances...
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The Student, Volume 3

Education - 1883 - 502 pages
...•world as ignorant of the existence of the methods and facts of science as the day he was born. * * Posterity will cry shame on us if we do not remedy this deplorable state of things. * * It is my firm conviction that (he only way to remedy it is to make the elements of physical science...
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