Means and Ends of Education: On Church, Morality, Public School And The Higher Life - Softcover

Bishop Of Peoria, J. L. Spalding,

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497550033 ISBN 13: 9781497550032

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

"Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons."

"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is."

"Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry."

“Bishop Spalding is one of the few voices in our literature in which the spiritual meaning in clear and distinct. It has been said of him that he has all that Emerson had, and more, too....Bishop Spalding projects the results of thought at you so abruptly that you are at first stirred into an opposition which only ceases when you yourself have gone through a similar process of thinking. His very abruptness is stimulating; blocks of truth are hurled at you in quick succession; you retort in your mind, and soon find that the exercise is healthful and convincing. It is the secret of the art of expressing oneself in literature, to speak personally. Bishop Spalding has it. The poet is apparent in every sentence and the orator in every paragraph; and behind all these qualities is the firmness of the mind that can be so free because it has found certitude. There is no line in ‘Means and Ends of Education’ that is not inspired by love and justice and duty. In this sense, and because of its power of stimulus, the Spalding essay has a thousand times more in it than all the papers of Emerson and his imitators ever had.” -The Catholic University Bulletin, Volume 2, January, 1896

“It is marked by clear thinking, deep sympathy, reverent faith in God and human nature, high ideals of man’s worth and work and destiny, and so of the teacher’s function and practical ideas as to modes of working out these ideals – all expressed in a clear and winning style.” -The Dial

CONTENTS.

I TRUTH AND LOVE

II. TRUTH AND LOVE (Continued)

III. THE MAKING OF ONE'S SELF

IV. WOMAN AND EDUCATION

V. THE SCOPE OF PUBLIC-SCHOOL EDUCATION

VI. THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT IN EDUCATION

VII. THE HIGHER EDUCATION

V. THE SCOPE OF PUBLIC-SCHOOL EDUCATION

VI. THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT IN EDUCATION

VII. THE HIGHER EDUCATION

About this title

About the Author:

John Lancaster Spalding (June 2, 1840 – August 25, 1916) was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America. (Wikipedia)

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1497550033
• ISBN 13: 9781497550032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184