On Some Defects in Public School Education: a Lecture Delivered At the Royal Institution, On ...
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p. 31 ; it contains, among many other passages which should fill us with shame, the following remark : — *' It follows that with a great mass of men, school educa- tion — and that education one which barely enables them at last to construe a Latin and Greek book, poet and orator, chosen by themselves, to master three books of Euclid, and solve a problem in quadratic equations— is prolonged to the age of twenty or twenty-one!^ "* It appears that after spending a great many years in these educati...onal institutions, the large mass come out with a very good knowledge of cricket, . . . with only that sort of knowledge of Latin and Greek which is perfectly useless in r' 54 APPENDIX, after life, and entirely destitute of mathematical, scientific, elementary truth, a knowledge of history and their own country, which it must be admitted are desirable, if pos- sible (!), to attainZ—EARL Granville {TimeSy May 12, 1864).
" Nothing can be worse than this state cf things^ when we ttnd modern languages, geography, history, chronology, and everything else which a well-educated English gentleman ought to know, given up in order that the full time should be devoted to the classics ; and at the same time we are told that the boys go up to Oxford not only not proficient, but in a lamentable state of deficiency with respect to the classics." — Earl of Clarendon (speaking of the impression left on his mind by the evidence given before the Commission).
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p. 31 ; it contains, among many other passages which should fill us with shame, the following remark : — *' It follows that with a great mass of men, school educa- tion — and that education one which barely enables them at last to construe a Latin and Greek book, poet and orator, chosen by themselves, to master three books of Euclid, and solve a problem in quadratic equations— is prolonged to the age of twenty or twenty-one!^ "* It appears that after spending a great many years in these educati...onal institutions, the large mass come out with a very good knowledge of cricket, . . . with only that sort of knowledge of Latin and Greek which is perfectly useless in r' 54 APPENDIX, after life, and entirely destitute of mathematical, scientific, elementary truth, a knowledge of history and their own country, which it must be admitted are desirable, if pos- sible (!), to attainZ—EARL Granville {TimeSy May 12, 1864).
" Nothing can be worse than this state cf things^ when we ttnd modern languages, geography, history, chronology, and everything else which a well-educated English gentleman ought to know, given up in order that the full time should be devoted to the classics ; and at the same time we are told that the boys go up to Oxford not only not proficient, but in a lamentable state of deficiency with respect to the classics." — Earl of Clarendon (speaking of the impression left on his mind by the evidence given before the Commission).
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