# An old master, and other political essays

Author: Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71776

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## Summary

Why has no one ever written on the art of academic lecturing and its many notable triumphs? In some quarters new educational canons have spoken an emphatic condemnation of the college lecture, and it would seem to be high time to consider its value, as illustrative of an art about to be lost, if not as exemplary of forces to be retained, even if modified. Are not our college class-rooms, in being robbed of the old-time lecture, and getting instead a science-brief of _data_ and bibliography, being deprived also of that literary atmosphere which once pervaded them? We are unquestionably gaining in thoroughness; but are we gaining in thoughtfulness? We are giving to many youths an insight, i...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-old-master-and-other-political-essays-71776/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-old-master-and-other-political-essays-71776/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-old-master-and-other-political-essays-71776/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-old-master-and-other-political-essays-71776/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-old-master-and-other-political-essays-71776/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-old-master-and-other-political-essays-71776/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-old-master-and-other-political-essays-71776/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-old-master-and-other-political-essays-71776/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-old-master-and-other-political-essays-71776/chapters/9/index.md)