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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: Art. III.?Inaugural Address of the Earl of Rosebery, K.G., to the University of Glasgow, November 16, 1900. problems connected with life and legislation have of late years exercised a greater number of tongues and pens than that of education. Speeches and lectures from different platforms, leading articles and essays in the press, and even sermons from the pulpit have been devoted to this subject. And not undeservedly. No question can be of greater importance to a nation than the question of what and how to teach those on whom the future prosperity of the nation depends. The answers given to the problem are almost as numerous as the persons who attempted its solution. The speakers and writers, even when quite free from party and class bias, could rarely divest themselves of those most deeply rooted of all prejudices?temperament and early association. The innate disposition of some to remain where they are, and the equally natural tendency of others to move on?these perennial springs of conservatism and progress?have in this, as in every other large question of the day, asserted themselves. In the following' pages an attempt will be made to supply some hints?we do not presume even to attempt a solution?which may be found of assistance to those who wish to arrive at a calm and impartial decision on the subject. We shall chiefly occupy ourselves with that side of the question which belongs to higher or university education. When we have discovered what our highest ideals of education are, it will not be difficult to agree as to the steps leading up to them. The ground must first of all be cleared of a certain ambiguity as to the nature of the task which a university undertakes to perform. It has repeatedly been stated that the universities have in many cases been unjust to the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458876317 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458876314 |
| Weight | 1.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.02 In |
| List Price | $31.36 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 460 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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