...according to his capacity. * * * Such education should enable an average boy of fifteen or sixteen years to read and write his own language with ease and accuracy,...social existence ; to have acquired the rudiments of physical science and a fair knowledge of elementary arithmetic and geometry. * * A young person, educated...

...own language with ease and accuracy, and with a sense of literary excellence derived from the stndy of our classic writers; to have a general acquaintance...great laws of social existence ; to have acquired the rndiments of physical science and a fair knowledge of elementary arithmetic and geometry. He ehould...

...accuracy, and with a sense of literary excellence derived from the study of our classic writers ; with a general acquaintance with the history of his own country and with the groat laws of social existence, supposing him to have acquired the rudiments of physical science, and...

...should enable a boy of fifteen or sixteen to read and write his own language with case and accuracy, to have a general acquaintance with the history of...existence, to have acquired the rudiments of the physical sciences, and a fair knowledge of elementary arithmetic and geometry. The acquirement of the elements...

...reasonably be expected, and will here quote the very similar opinion given by Professor Huxley : — " Such education should enable an average boy of fifteen...the history of his own country and with the great 1 The Pleasures of Life. laws of social existence, to have acquired the rudiments of the physical and...

...general acquaintance with the history of his own country and with the great 1 The Pleasures of Life. laws of social existence, to have acquired the rudiments...logic rather by example than by precept ; while the acquirements of the elements of music and drawing should have been pleasure rather than work." Such...

...university, a like sum to a hospital, and the rest to local institutions of education and charity. by no conditions save these : — That the principal...history of his own country and with the great laws of In the meanwhile, there is one step in the direction of the endowment of research which is free from...

...nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself. 1 Huxley's view was, that Education should enable an average boy of fifteen...drawing should have been pleasure rather than work. 2 The excessive amount of time allotted to Latin and Greek has been criticised and deplored ever since...

...nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.1 Huxley's view was, that Education should enable an average boy of fifteen...and drawing should have been pleasure rather than work.2 The excessive amount of time allotted to Latin and Greek has been criticised and deplored ever...

...average boy of fifteen or sixteen to read and write his own language with ease and accuracy, and 30 with a sense of literary excellence derived from the...while the acquirement of the elements of music and 5 drawing should have been pleasure rather than work. It may sound strange to many ears if I venture...