Letter to the Right Hon. The Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh, Regarding the System of Education Pursued at the High School (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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There are two principal avenues to knowledge - the study of words and the study of things. But words are but the arbitrary signs of ideas, and have no value independent of those ideas. To account the mere knowledge of words, therefore, as wisdom, is to mistake the cask for the wine, and the casket for the gem. I say all this, because knowledge in words is often. Extolled be yond its just merits, and put for all wisdom, while knowledge of things, especially of the productions of nature, is derided as if it were mere folly. - Kirby and Spence' s Introduction to Ento mology, vol. I. P. 25, 26.the present state of society. But we have been so long accustomed to attach a high value to classical education as the medium of liberal know ledge, without reference to the change that has taken place in Europe within the last two hun dred years, that it still holds the same place as when all kn owledge was exclusively confined to the dead languages. We still cling to the ladder which has raised us to the eminence, forgetting that when the ascent is attained we might start from a new elevation.
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There are two principal avenues to knowledge - the study of words and the study of things. But words are but the arbitrary signs of ideas, and have no value independent of those ideas. To account the mere knowledge of words, therefore, as wisdom, is to mistake the cask for the wine, and the casket for the gem. I say all this, because knowledge in words is often. Extolled be yond its just merits, and put for all wisdom, while knowledge of things, especially of the productions of nature, is derided as if it were mere folly. - Kirby and Spence' s Introduction to Ento mology, vol. I. P. 25, 26.the present state of society. But we have been so long accustomed to attach a high value to classical education as the medium of liberal know ledge, without reference to the change that has taken place in Europe within the last two hun dred years, that it still holds the same place as when all kn owledge was exclusively confined to the dead languages. We still cling to the ladder which has raised us to the eminence, forgetting that when the ascent is attained we might start from a new elevation.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0259550736
- ISBN 13 9780259550730
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages36
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