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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART SECOND THE TRAINING OF TASTE IN SCHOOLS Of neglected elements in our Education, there has none been more forgotten than the Esthetic. We have improved in many points in our recent educational advances, but have, till but yesterday, totally overlooked the training of Taste-j(i our children, as an important and necessary part of a full course of human development. We are, as a people, creditably intellectual, fairly moral, earnestly if not superstitiously religious, and eminently and prosaically practical; but aesthetic or refined, little or not at all. And what is worse, we pride ourselves on its want, deeming devotion to things of taste weakness, and proving the point by calling it French polish or Italian dilettantism. This is matter for the deepest regret; it is a national loss, in character and happiness, that should command the earnest attention of all interested in national progress. There are growing signs of improvement in this respect, but as yet only among the few; and some of these have advocated the subject in a way that has tickled popular humour, roused ridicule, and caused revolt instead of advance in this despised but vital direction? a grave neglect being hidden and perpetuated by confounding the weak extravagances of sun-flower aesthetes with true culture, and by ignorantly reckoning instruction in Art as a means only for promoting, as Ruskin says, habits of mind which, in their more modern developments in Europe, have certainly not been advantageous to nations or indicative of worthiness in them. A Joy for Ever. Supplementary papers, Education in Art, 154. THE NEED FOR CULTIVATING TASTE IN SCHOOLS I. ? THE NATURE OF TASTE. In this work, the word Taste is used as a short and convenient synonym for aesthetic pleasure ? delight i...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217042772 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217042775 |
| Weight | 0.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.16 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 68 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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