Proceedings, Volume 1

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H. & J. Phillans & Wilson, Printers., 1903 - Classical education
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Page 18 - to cultivate the scientific imagination ') — ' because the ideality of the scientific sense, interest in learning not dependent upon, or limited by, practical aims, but ministering to the liberal education of the mind as such ; the many-sided and widely-extended exercise of the thinking power, and an acquaintance with the classical bases of our science and our civilisation, can be satisfactorily cultivated only by our institutions of classical learning.
Page 1 - I could wish for the honour you have done me in electing me as your president. For I stand in the fifty-second year of our institution as seventh on an illustrious roll.
Page 16 - Greek, and still more, the power to translate, with fair accuracy, simple sentences into Latin, implies an amount of logical training, of mastery over language in general, and over our own language in particular, which will serve the scholar throughout his life. And if he can go further than this : if he can turn a piece of idiomatic literary English into a piece of idiomatically correct Latin prose, he can be sent into any calling with the certainty that, if he have the will and energy, he will...
Page 16 - but the students from the Gymnasien have the best trained minds. Give me a student who has been taught his Latin grammar, and I will answer for his chemistry.
Page 28 - On demande seulement au grec et au latin de contribuer, pour leur part, a 1'education generale de 1'esprit. ... II est clair que la lecture des textes est le point capital. . . . On ne devra done pas s'attarder a 1'etucle de la grammaire ; celle-ci devra etre tres simple et tres soigneusement graduee, suivant 1'age de 1'eleve.
Page 14 - In the last year for which there are returns — the year 1899-1900 — the total number of secondary scholars, as we have seen, was 630,048, out of whom 314,856 were learning Latin. But of that number only 61,517 were preparing for a college, or a higher scientific school ; no less than 223,349 scholars were learning Latin as an instrument of pure school culture, without any intention of continuing the study at a University.
Page 16 - all my best students come from the Gymnasien. The students from the Real-Schulen do best at first; but after three months' work here, they are, as a rule, left behind by those coming from the Gymnasien." "How do you account for that ?" I asked; "I understand that students in the Real-Schulen are specially instructed in chemistry.
Page 17 - Judging from my experience, it is simply impossible for one who has been prepared in the Realschule to acquire a satisfactory scientific education. No man acquires it by means of the modern languages alone, nor without a solid foundation in the training of the Gymnasium.
Page 99 - ... But as Barnes was to Bentley, so are the mechanical products of compulsory Greek to Barnes. If they were asked in the witness-box, as the Claimant was, what Greek they had read at school, they would probably not say " Caesar." They would remember that Caesar wrote a book for beginners in Latin. But an aversion from the sight of the Greek alphabet is the most definite result in many cases of ramming Greek syntax into unsympathetic minds. It is the same with mathematics. Mathematicians, like musicians,...
Page 23 - Let me show briefly the relative amount of time given to the various subjects included in the curriculum of a Prussian Gymnasium, throughout the whole school course. It can be stated in the simplest way thus : — At any one time there are nine separate classes — each representing one stage in the nine years' curriculum — being taught at once.

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