 | Edward Livingston Youmans - Education - 1867 - 504 pages
...justifiable enough in that day, but obsolete in this. The vague impression to which I have above referred, that such pursuits impart a training to the mind,...tongues. Few, if any, are the facts worth knowing that arc to be exclusively obtained by a knowledge of Latin and Greek; and as.to mental discipline, it might... | |
 | Arthur Henfrey - Education - 1867 - 502 pages
...justifiable enough in that day, but obsolete in this. The vague impression to which I have above referred, that such pursuits impart a training to the mind,...power of communicating the wisdom of past ages. The grand'depositories of human knowledge are not the ancient, but the modern tongues. Few, if any, are... | |
 | John Wesley Hoyt - Education - 1870 - 412 pages
...and such alone, impart a training to the mind has long sustained this unwise course. It also finds excuse in its alleged power of communicating the wisdom...knowledge are not the ancient but the modern tongues. Few arc the facts worth knowing that are to be exclusively obtained by a knowledge of Latin and Greek ;... | |
 | United States commission to the Paris expos, 1867 - 1870 - 816 pages
...and such alone, impart a training to the mind has long sustained this unwise course. It also finds excuse in its alleged power of communicating the wisdom...knowledge are not the ancient but the modern tongues. Few are the facts worth knowing that are to be exclusively obtained by a knowledge of Latin and Greek;... | |
 | John Wesley Hoyt - Education - 1870 - 402 pages
...and such alone, impart a training to the mind has long sustained this unwise course. It also finds excuse in its alleged power of communicating the wisdom...knowledge are not the ancient but the modern tongues. Few are the facts worth knowing that are to be exclusively obtained by a knowledge of Latin and Greek ;... | |
 | John Fiske - American essays - 1885 - 404 pages
...disconnected statements about physical geography, Arabian chemists, and Jewish physicians — told us that " the grand depositories of human knowledge are not...modern, tongues : few, if any, are the facts worth 1 Essays on a Liberal Education. Edited by Rev. FW Farrar, MA, FRS London : Macmillau & Co. 1867. knowing... | |
 | John Fiske - American essays - 1885 - 402 pages
...disconnected statements about physical geography, Arabian chemists, and Jewish physicians — told us that " the grand depositories of human knowledge are not...modern, tongues : few, if any, are the facts worth 1 Essays on a Liberal Education. Edited by Rev. FW Farrar, MA, FKS London: Macmillan & Co. 1867. knowing... | |
 | California. University, University of California (1868-1952) - Education - 1913 - 474 pages
...and such alone, impart a training to the mind has long sustained this unwise course. It also finds excuse in its alleged power of communicating the wisdom...knowledge are not the ancient, but the modern tongues. Few are the facts worth knowing that are to be exclusively obtained by a knowledge of Latin and Greek;... | |
 | Herbert Galen Lull - Education - 1913 - 136 pages
...and such alone, impart a training to the mind has long sustained this unwise course. It also finds excuse in its alleged power of communicating the wisdom...knowledge are not the ancient, but the modern tongues. Few are the facts worth knowing that are to be exclusively obtained by a knowledge of Latin and Greek;... | |
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... in this. The vague impression that such pursuits, and such alone, impart a training to the mind has long sustained this unwise course. It also finds excuse in its alleged power of communicating the wisdom of past ages. The grand depositories of human... 