Cambridge Essays on Education

And as we desire our games to foster the spirit that faces danger, so we shall wish them to foster the spirit that faces hardship, the spirit of endurance. That is why I think t...

This failure to appreciate and to accept the challenge of religion--a failure shown later on in life in a certain diffidence about foreign missions, and in the toleration of soc...

To teach a sensible use of leisure, healthy both for mind and body, is by no means the least important part of education. Nor is it by any means the least pressing, or the least...

And it is only the lack, in so many of the greatest writers, and the neglect, in so many educators and educational systems, of that due balance of qualities and acquirements of...

This fact in itself is sufficient to account for the ineffectiveness, the despondencies, the insincerities and ceaseless unrest of Western civilisation in the nineteenth century...

I am not suggesting that the history and literatures of other countries should be neglected, or that foreign languages should form no part of education. But the main object is t...

Matthew Arnold, whose exhortations to his countrymen now seem almost prophetic, drew a strong contrast between the intellectual frivolity, or rather insensibility, of his countr...

Of late things have become worse. In the middle of the nineteenth century a perfunctory and superficial acquaintance with recent scientific discovery was not unusual among the u...

The scheme of publishing a volume of essays dealing with underlying aims and principles of education was originated by the University Press Syndicate. It seemed to promise somet...

The objective of the public school boy anxious to take a part in government at home has always been parliament, or such local institutions as demand his service in accordance wi...

A much more difficult problem is sure to arise, sooner or later, in connection with the utilisation of efficients. Some few years ago the present Prime Minister called attention...

Only a brief answer can be attempted to these questions. It might indeed be given in the answer to the old puzzle, _solvitur ambulando_; for, given a clear aim and common sense,...

The same principle applies with just the same force to history and geography; both of these studies can be made interesting, if they are not regarded as isolated groups of pheno...

It is from considerations of this kind that I am led to believe that for most boys the easiest and most attractive introduction to science is from the biological side. Admittedl...

Largely as the result of the realisation of the immediate relationship between national education and national productivity there are abundant signs that the English educational...

With the elementary school boy it is not so. To him, as to his parents, the primal curse is painfully real: work is the sole and not always effectual means of warding off starva...

A professional Register constructed on these lines had the seeming advantage of supplying information as to the type of work for which the individual teacher was best fitted. On...