 | 1872 - 398 pages
...with them. This union, however, will not be effected so long as the schools are left to themselves. " The thing is, to raise the culture of the nation ever higher and higher," and to effect this the forces acting downwards must be counteracted by a force acting upwards. The... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Education - 1868 - 396 pages
...PROFESSOR OF POETRY IM THS US1VBBSITY OF OXFORD MACMILLAN AND CO, 1808 JRftD/BUKR I ft 1 The thing is no?, to let the schools and universities go on in a drowsy...impotent routine; the thing is, to raise the culture of tho nation ever higher and higher by their moms.' WlLHElJf VON PREFACE. I WAS in 1S65 charged by the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Education - 1868 - 396 pages
...POPUUVB EDUCATION IN ENGLAND, AND PROFESSOR OF I'OETBY IN TU£ UNIVEnSITY OF OXFORD MACMILLAN AND CO, ' The thing is not, to let the schools and universities...go on in a drowsy and impotent routine; the thing ia, to raise the culture of the nation ever higher and higher by their means.' WH.HELM von HUMBOLDT.... | |
 | Education - 1870 - 944 pages
...William Von Humboldt and Baron Altenstein were at the head of the education department has been — " The thing is not to let the schools and universities go on in a drowsy and impotent routine; the tiling is, to raise the culture of the nation ever higher and higher." The whole of the educational... | |
 | United States. Department of Education - African Americans - 1871 - 944 pages
...William Von Humboldt and Baron Alteustein were at the head of the education department has been — " The thing is not to let the schools and universities...the culture of the nation ever higher and higher." The whole of the educational establishments in Prussia are under the control, more or less immediate,... | |
 | William Babcock Hazen - France - 1872 - 426 pages
...inaugurator of the modern order of schools in Germany. His first recorded words upon the subject are : " The thing is, not to let the schools and universities go on in a drowsy and impotent way of routine, but to raise the culture of the nation ever higher and higher by their means." And... | |
 | John Murdoch - Education - 1873 - 122 pages
...von Humboldt might be taken as a motto for his whole administration of public instruction in Prussia: "The thing is not, to let the schools and universities...the nation ever higher and higher by their means."* Books forra an important part of the educational machinery. Their influence is of no mean value. "... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1874 - 448 pages
...biturientenpriifung what it now is. He was the originator of a uniform plan of examination obligatory * ' The thing is not, to let the schools and universities...the nation ever higher and higher by their means.' E on all who examined candidates for entrance to the university. Schleiermacher, who, as I have said,... | |
 | Education - 1876 - 320 pages
...Humboldt, when he took up the same subject in Prussia, that " the thing is not to let schools anil universities go on in a drowsy and impotent routine...the culture of the nation ever higher and higher." Нолу- nobly Germany has effected this purpose, during the last generation, by a good system of... | |
 | Education - 1877 - 444 pages
...assumed the control of the schools, actuated by the thought so well expressed by himself •. '• The thing is not to let the schools and universities...the nation ever higher and higher by their means." Under his inspiring hand the German schools sprang, as if by magic, to the front rank, a position they... | |
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The thing is not to let the schools and Universities go on in a drowsy and impotent routine ; the thing is to raise the culture of the nation ever higher and higher by their means. 
