Classical Literature in Its Relation to the Nineteenth Century And Scottish University Education ...
Classical Literature in Its Relation to the Nineteenth Century And Scottish University Education ...
John Stuart Blackie
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And let me say, also, that from whatever quarter opposition may come to the highest possible elevation of the standard of Greek teaching in our academical classes, it will not come from me Whatever amount of force I should spend in indoctrinating a few raw lads with the mere elements of grammar from this Chair, would be so much abstracted from the service of the great mass of those who are entitled to ex- pect from an academic teacher something far higher. It becomes Edinburgh, as the metropoli...tan University, to lead the van in all matters of academical progress, not to lag in the rear ; and if the remaining three Universities of Scotland shall not follow in this matter, the example now set by two of their number, it needs little foresight to prophesy, that it will be more to their shame than to our loss. On classical literature generally, and on the place which has been assigned to it as a prominent branch of higher education in this country, so much has been said by the various parties who have taken part in the great educational movement of the last thirty years, that I should gladly seize on any excuse that might free me from the obligation of dis- courping publicly on so hackneyed a theme ; but the present occasion seems imperatively to demand that I should explain to the friends of polite learning in this city what is the posi- tion that I claim for Greek literature in reference to our Scottish academical system, and the general intellectual culture of the nineteenth centiuy* Though I may have small INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
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