 | Henry Holman - Education - 1896 - 560 pages
...IMVI'USilV OFMTCHIGAJN r. EDUCATlON The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. — PLATO. The general problem of education is to develop children as imperfect beings into perfect ones. ARISTOTLE.... | |
 | William Gilbert Anderson - Gymnastics - 1896 - 296 pages
...contribution the whole of psychology." — PAYNE. " The purpose of education is to give to the body and soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable." — PLATO. " Education is the development in man of all the perfection which his nature permits."— KANT. " To... | |
 | Science - 1897 - 896 pages
...capacities. . . . From the medical standpoint we shall reply in the affirmative to the query of Plato: 'Is not that the best education which gives to the...beauty, and all the perfection of which they are capable ? ' Overpressure in education may in brief be described as a neglect of the principles just set forth... | |
 | Kansas State Board of Health - 1897 - 176 pages
...conditions of advancing civilization. Perfect development. — To Plato's question, "Is not that th« best education which gives to the mind and to the...and all the perfection of which they are capable?" there is no uncertain answer. All who have to do with our public schools are earnestly striving to... | |
 | Education - 1898 - 558 pages
...peace and war. Socrates. — To dispel error and discover truth. Plato. — To give to body and soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. Aristotle. — Attainment of happiness through perfect virtue. Erasmus. — General education to prepare... | |
 | David Perkins Page - Teaching - 1899 - 402 pages
...faith. — FREDERICK D. HUNTINGTON. 4. The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. — PLATO. 5. Education is the endeavor to liberate the ideal human being that lies concealed in every child.... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1899 - 1284 pages
...comparison; in short, we accept Plato's idea of education, which is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. The teacher is proud of his noble name. The great master Agassiz would be called by no other. And you... | |
 | Willard Daniel Johnson - Education - 1899 - 122 pages
...his former work. In it, he says, "A good education is that which gives to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable * * * A free mind ought to learn nothing as a slave. The lesson that is made to enter the mind by force... | |
 | James Hutchins Baker - Education - 1900 - 278 pages
...among pedagogues. Plato defines a good education as " That which gives to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable." The ideal aim is the harmonious or symmetrical development of the physical, mental, and moral powers.... | |
 | Preston Willis Search - Schools - 1901 - 402 pages
...trustworthy citizen. " Is not that the best education," says Plato, " which gives to the mind and to the soul all the force, all the beauty, and all the perfection of which they are capable ? " So in this great country of ours, as Dr. Edward Everett Hale has so well put it,* " every child... | |
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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable. 
