The Schoolmaster: A Commentary Upon the Aims and Methods of an Assistant-master in a Public School |
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academical terms ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON asked athletic attempt Bab Ballads believe BESIDE STILL WATERS better boy's boys should feel brisk character clergyman conscientious corporal punishment course crasy criticism deal desire difficulty discipline dislike drudgery duty easy effective English enthusiasm entirely Eton evil exer exercise experience fession frankly friendly G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS give hand headmaster heard holidays housemaster ideal important impression influence insisted instinct intellectual interest keep kind lesson lively look MAGDALENE COLLEGE master ment merely mind mistake moreover natural never parent paternal person point of view position possible practice praise priggishness profession public school punishment Purity question reading reads or dreams reason religion religious rule schoolmaster schoolmaster's sense simple speak spirit strong sure sympathy talk teacher teaching temptation tend things Thucydides tion tone tutor upper boys Virgil vocation young
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Page 55 - My idea of an intellectual person is one whose mind is alive to ideas; who is interested in politics, religion, science, history, literature; who knows enough to wish to know more, and to listen if he cannot talk; a person who is not at the mercy of a new book, a leading article, or the chatter of an irresponsible outsider; a person who is not insular, provincial, narrow-minded, contemptuous.
Page 61 - The result is that we send out from our public schools year after year many boys who hate knowledge and think books dreary, who are perfectly self-satisfied and entirely ignorant, and, what is worse, not ignorant in a wholesome and humble manner, but arrogantly and contemptuously ignorant — not only satisfied to be so, but thinking it ridiculous and almost unmanly that a young man should be anything else.
Page 54 - ... care about making them (the boys) intellectual ; intellectual life is left to take care of itself ... It seems to me that the Athenian ideal —that of strong intellectual capacity— is left out of sight altogether. . . I believe we have condescended far too much to the boy's ideal of life. . . . So far removed is the intellectual ideal from the mind of the ordinary man that it is difficult even to write of it without being misunderstood. It is understood to be a kind of mixture of priggishness...