A French Eton, or, Middle class education and the state
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...share of home comforts than they ait present enjoy there (though certainly it would do this), that such a secondary instruction would confer upon them the greatest boon. Its greatest boon to ...
MoreThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...share of home comforts than they ait present enjoy there (though certainly it would do this), that such a secondary instruction would confer upon them the greatest boon. Its greatest boon to the offspring of these classes would be its giving them great, honauBable, public institutions for their nurture--institutions conveying to the spirit, at the time of life when the spirit is most penetrable, the salur tary influences of greatness, honour, and. nationality--influences which expand the soul, liberalise the mind, dignify the character. Such institutions are the great, public schools of England and the great Universities; with these influences, and some others to which I just, now pointed, they have formed the upper class of this country--a class with many faults, with many shortcomings, but imbued, on the whole, and mainly through these influences, with a high, magnanimous, governing spirit, which has long enabled them to rule, not ignobly, this great country, and which will still enable them to rule it until they are equalled or surpassed. These institutions had their origin in endowments; and the age of endowments is gone. Beautiful and venerable as are many of the aspects under which it presents itself, this form of public establishment of education, with its limitations, its preferences, its ecclesiastical character, its inflexibility, its inevitable want of foresight, proved, as time rolled on, to be subject to many inconveniences, to many abuses. On the Continent of Europe a clean sweep has in general been made of this old form of establishment, and new institutions have arisen upon its ruins. In England we have kept our great school and college foundations, introducing into their system what correctives and palliatives were absolutely necessary. Lon...
Publisher | RareBooksClub.com |
Binding | Paperback (17 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | 26 |
ISBN-10 | 123238769X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1232387695 |
Publication Date | 05/14/2012 |
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