Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-11-19
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" tadfieS ~. Eliot, PTeStQenf o. HdFrHI
CnlreTsitg, doiirered October II, 1905.
The endless controversies whether lsnguag
philosophy, mathematics, or science supply u
best mental training, whether general educ'
/ ton should be chiefly literary or chiefly scleI
tiic, have no personal lesson for US to-da,
This University rec cgnizes no real Antagonist
between literature and science, ana consents
no sueh narrow alternatives as mathematics
classics. science or metaphysics. We woul
have them all, and at their best. To obsery
keenly. TO reason soundly, and to imagine vivid
" are operations a. essential as that Of clea
and forcibe expression; and to develop one
these faculties, it is not necessary TO repres
and dwarf the Others 4 University is nc
closely concerned with the applications
knowledge, until its general education branche
into professional. Poetry and philosophy an
science do indeed conspire to promote the ms
terisl welfare Of mankind; but science no NOR
than poetry finds its best warrant ia its utility
Truth and right are above utility in all realm
of thought and action.
II were a bitter mockery to suggest that any
subject whatever should be taught les than !
now is ini American colleges The only concelva
bic aim ola college government in our day
to broaden, deepen, and invigorate American
teaching in all branches Of learning. II viii b
generations before the best Of American inst
tutions of education viii get growth CROUCH Il
bear pruning. The descendants Of tie Pilgrim
Fathers are still very thankful for the parche,
corn of learning.
Recent discussions have added pitifully littl
/ the worlds stock Of wisdom about the staple
/ Of education. Who blows today such ring
! ing trumpet-call TO the study Of language al
Luther blew, Hardly a significant word ha
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tue primary scHooi thIouEn tne col.ege' is re-
= ohs'"le i0r inc iA'I tha' many co"ese gTalu-
''es nave 20 lHAief ua'e u oouoepuoh OF "hat
is meant by sclentlnc observation, reasoning
ana proof II Is possible Tor the young to get
actual experience OF all the principal methods
1i thought There IS method of thought in
language, ana a method IN mathematics, and
another Of natural and physical science, and
mother OF ialth. win wise direction, even
'hild would drink at all these springs The ac-
ma problem to he solved Is not what 10 teach,
lut now TO teach. The revolutions accomplish
Il IN other fields OF labor have lesson for
eachers. New England could not cut her hay
WITH scyihes, nor the West her wheat with
5'c1es. When millions are 10 be fed where for
merry there were but scores, the single fish
ine must ne replaced by seines ana travis, the
human shoulders by ean-eieyat9rs, and the
'ooieh-hNled ox-cArf on corduroy road by the
moo ll-Iuhhns freight fAih. In education
mere is gIea, hungry uuiD'u-e 10 De lei.
ne great wei AT Or'ie'o' up whose spiral
'atns hies Of douSeys Painfully brought the
"eet water IN kegs was an admirable con
" 1ctoh IN Us cay out now we TAP Fresh
'oni IN our chambers. The vrVeto well might |
e'HIhi some persons oil eilcational methods not |
e' eA'!hc' WIN s''i me'h''s, we may |
'hnlenliy nope 10 eve young men OF twenty or /
wen y-nse an accurate general hno"iedge Of /
il tne lnNn SUI e'S oi human interest beside
minute aLi lhioush Aho"tdse OF the one /
inject "A'cA eAch may select as ms principal
'eupAuon II NE. 10 TANK TINS Impossible Is
despair oil mans1ni' Tor unless a general ac-
u1lutance with many branches OF knowledge,
'i ''s lar A. IL s'es' De a'tainahe by great
'iAoers ol men mere can De no sucn thing
az ln'e-hgent puoIc opnlon; and IN the
'' Tern "oria me intelligence Oh pubhc opinion
, ,,.. one condi''en OF social progress
hat mas been SAID OF needed reformation IN
e'nois OF teicA!hs the subjects winch have
'e'dy peeh hom'hAiy admitted 70 the Amer-
VI curriculum appHes not only TO the Jr-Yer-
y; ou' 10 the preparatory schools @. every
+, iie Ho~l 10 'he primary Inc American
-iege j. oohgei TO supplement- the American
iioo,' "ha'e'er elementary instruction the
nOoi lti 10 give, me cen ese must supply |
le iinpro'ement oil th7 s'no'i haS Of late years
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