Benjamin Franklin And the University of Pennsylvania

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In his plan for an lOnglish school he said: Thus instructed, youth will come out of this school fitted for learning any busi- ness, calling, or profession, except such win-rein languages are required; but un- acquainted with any ancient or foreign tongue, they will lie masters of their owu, which is of more immediate and general use, and withal will have attained many other valuable accomplishments; the time usually spent in acquiring those lan- guages, often without success, being here employe...d in laying such a foundation of knowledge and ability as, properly improved, may qualify them to pass through and execute the several offices of civil life with advantage and reputation to them- selves and country.
Franklin's ideas of education, based upon utilitarian philosophy, are well illustrated in the public education now afforded in the Philadd phia manual training schools. I have no doubt that they are the out growth of Franklin's ideas.
Heretofore [says the principal of the Central school] 1 men have cultivated their brains at the expense of their hands, while those who worked with their hands "Seventh Report of the Manual Training Schools, pp.


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