Physical science, its methods, its problems, and its difficulties, will meet the 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... Bulletin - Page 2711917Full view - About this book
| Modern culture - Culture - 1867 - 458 pages
...aim of an intelligent being. But of all this your old stereotyped system of education takes no note. Physical science, its methods, its problems, and its...The modern world 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... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans - Education - 1867 - 504 pages
...aim of an intelligent being. But of all this your old stereotyped system of education takes no note. Physical science, its methods, its problems, and its...The modern world 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... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 444 pages
...aim of an intelligent being. But of all this your old stereotyped system of education takes no note. Physical science, its methods, its problems, and its...The modern world 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... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...for it is physical science only, that makes intelligence and moral energy stronger than brute force. Physical science, its methods, its problems, and its...of the methods and facts of science as the day he wae born. The modern world is full of artillery ; and we turn out our children to do battle in it,... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...Physical science, its methods, its problems, and its difficulties, will meet the poorest boy at everv turn, and yet we educate him in such a manner that he shall enter the world ae ignorant of the existence of the methods and facts of science as the day he was born. The modern... | |
| Education - 1880 - 472 pages
...commends the subjects just mentioned, and says: — "The system is excellent, so far as it goes, but, physical science, its methods, its problems, and its...and facts of science, as the day he was born." The same great author still further observes : — " The modern world is full of artillery ; and we turn... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1918 - 676 pages
...Huxley, who in 1861 pronounced these prophetic words : Physical science, its methods, its problems sad its difficulties will meet the poorest boy at every...science as the day he was born. The modern world is full oí artillery, and we turn our children out to do battle in it, equipped with the sword of an ancient... | |
| Education - 1883 - 502 pages
...for a modicum of science."* Again he says : " Physical science, its problems and its difficulties, meet the poorest boy at every turn, and yet we educate...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... | |
| Thomas Jefferson Morgan - Education - 1887 - 286 pages
...for it is physical science only that makes intelligence and moral energy stronger than brute force. Physical science, its methods, its problems, and its...The modern world is full of artillery ; and we turn out our children to do battle in it, equipped with the shield and sword of the gladiator. It is my... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - Biology - 1897 - 416 pages
...aim of an intelligent being. But of all this your old stereotyped system of education takes no note. Physical science, its methods, its problems, and its...The modern world 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... | |
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