...Acquisition of knowledge is not everything; it is the organization of knowledge we want. Spencer remarks, "It is not the knowledge stored up as intellectual...but that which is turned into intellectual muscle." . But its worst feature is that it destroys that physical vigor necessary to make intellectual training...

...subject on which we are called to puss judgment." Or. to quote one of Herbert Spencer's pithy sentences: "It is not the knowledge stored up as intellectual...but that which is turned into intellectual muscle." Right here is the dividing line between knowledge and wisdom, or perhaps I should say, is wbere knowledge...

...thy powers. Develop and improve thyself. Study, think, investigate, learn. Remember, however, that " it is not the knowledge stored up as intellectual...but that which is turned into intellectual muscle." Out of dull and selfish seclusion go forth. Regulate with care thy basal endowments. Prove thy strength,...

...investigate, learn. Remember, however, that " it is not the knowledge stored up as intellectual fafc which is of value, but that which is turned into intellectual muscle." Out of dull and selfish seclusion go forth. Regulate with care thy basal endowments. Prove thy strength,...

...thing is the organisation of knowledge, for which time and spontaneous thinking are requisite. ... It is not the knowledge stored up as intellectual...but that which is turned into intellectual muscle. ... A comparatively small and ill-made engine, worked at high pressure, will do more than 'a large...

...matter is the organization of knowledge, for which time and spontaneous thinking are requisite. * * * * It is not the knowledge stored up as intellectual...but that which is turned into intellectual muscle."* Time and spontaneous thinking! Who has ever known a college student who had time for such thinking,...

...intelligence, that the mind is overburden«! and hampered by an excess of ill-digested informa306 307 tion. hom it is exercised ; and the ' self-government '...government of each by himself, but of each by all th But the mistake is still deeper. Even were the system good as a system of intellectual training, which...

...assimilate beyond a certain rate, any more than can the digestive organs ; and it makes study distasteful to children, and consequently encourages the shirking...a way is speedily lost, while at the same time the brain is unfitted for healthy and spontaneous exercise in the future. It is a mistake also, because,...

...produce an individual more or less evenly developed." And again : — " It is not the knowledge that is stored up as intellectual fat which is of value, but that which is turned into intellectual muscle ; this intellectual fat is also fatal to that vigour of physique needful to make intellectual training...

...matter is the organization of knowledge, for which time and spontaneous thinking are requisite. ... It is not the knowledge stored up as intellectual...but that which is turned into intellectual muscle. But the mistake is still deeper. Even were the system good as a system of intellectual training, which...