Putnam's and the Reader Volume 3.cBooks Group
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... entire, if boys and girls could be put to the book almost at once and be made to acquire in two or three years the power to read easy Greek and Latin, there would still, I think, be an objection in many minds. The fact would remain that this power would not insure their ability to earn a living or to produce and rear healthy offspring. The objection founded on this fact arises from a conception of education which it is worth while to glance at somewhat more closely. For the sake of clearness I may perhaps be allowed to give a rather arbitrary meaning to the words "culture" and "education." By education I want to designate the training any organism may receive that will enable it to secure its own existence and reproduce the species on the terms most pleasurable and advantageous to itself. By culture I want to imply the knowledge and training which an individual pursues for their own sake, without any utilitarian motive whatever, just because he wants to perceive or to know or to reflect upon certain things. It will be seen that the content of these two sorts of training might be interchangeable. A line of study that might be education for one man would be culture for another, and conversely. I am not trying to distinguish between the values of different kinds of knowledge, but simply between the motives with which they are followed. If I may illustrate by a humble instance the distinction I wish to make I would say that the docile flea is capable of a great deal of education but probably not susceptible of culture. It is a matter of evidence that the flea can learn to fire cannon, to draw carriages and to perform other feats quite outside the field of its ordinary attainment, and if it be objected that these accomplishments must look ve...
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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 398 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235933905
File size: 44 Mb
Download Link: Putnam's and the Reader Volume 3
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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 398 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235933905
File size: 44 Mb
Download Link: Putnam's and the Reader Volume 3
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... entire, if boys and girls could be put to the book almost at once and be made to acquire in two or three years the power to read easy Greek and Latin, there would still, I think, be an objection in many minds. The fact would remain that this power would not insure their ability to earn a living or to produce and rear healthy offspring. The objection founded on this fact arises from a conception of education which it is worth while to glance at somewhat more closely. For the sake of clearness I may perhaps be allowed to give a rather arbitrary meaning to the words "culture" and "education." By education I want to designate the training any organism may receive that will enable it to secure its own existence and reproduce the species on the terms most pleasurable and advantageous to itself. By culture I want to imply the knowledge and training which an individual pursues for their own sake, without any utilitarian motive whatever, just because he wants to perceive or to know or to reflect upon certain things. It will be seen that the content of these two sorts of training might be interchangeable. A line of study that might be education for one man would be culture for another, and conversely. I am not trying to distinguish between the values of different kinds of knowledge, but simply between the motives with which they are followed. If I may illustrate by a humble instance the distinction I wish to make I would say that the docile flea is capable of a great deal of education but probably not susceptible of culture. It is a matter of evidence that the flea can learn to fire cannon, to draw carriages and to perform other feats quite outside the field of its ordinary attainment, and if it be objected that these accomplishments must look ve...
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