A French Eton: Or, Middle Class Education and the State

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Macmillan and Company, 1864 - 122 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 79 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Sayfa 60 - ... the notion of a sort of republican fellowship, the practice of a plain life in common, the habit of self-help. To the middle class, the grand aim of education should be to give largeness of soul and personal dignity ; to the lower class, feeling, gentleness, humanity.
Sayfa 6 - Eton, Winchester, Westminster, Charterhouse, St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors', Harrow, Rugby, and Shrewsbury.
Sayfa 121 - This obscure embryo, only just beginning to move, travailing in labor and darkness, so much left out of account when we celebrate the glories of our Atlantis, now and then, by so mournful a glimpse, showing itself to us in Lambeth, or Spitalfields, or Dorsetshire; this immense working class, now so without a practicable passage to all the joy and beauty of life...
Sayfa 37 - ... a year if they are day-scholars, an education of as good quality, with as good guarantees, social character, and advantages for a future career in the world, as the education which French children of the corresponding class can obtain from institutions like that of Toulouse or Soreze ? There is the really important question. It is vain to meet it by propositions which may, very likely, be true, but which are quite irrelevant. " Your French Etons," I am told, " are no Etons " at all ; there is...
Sayfa 103 - Oh, the men from the great schools don't care for those things now; the men who care about them are the men from Marlborough, Cheltenham, and the second-rate schools!" Whence, I say, does this slackness, this sleep of the mind, come, except from a torpor of intellectual life, a dearth of ideas, an indifference to fine culture or disbelief in its necessity, spreading through the bulk of our highest class, and influencing its rising generation ? People talk as if the...
Sayfa 42 - No one, who knows anything of the subject, will venture to affirm that these " educational homes" give, or can give, that which they " conscientiously offer." JNTo one, who knows anything of the subject, will seriously affirm that they give, or can give, an education comparable to that given by the Toulouse and Soreze schools. And why ? Because they want the securities which, to make them produce even half of what they offer, are indispensable — the securities of supervision and publicity. By this...

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