Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The choice of books is not the least part of the duty of a scholar. If he would become a man, and worthy to deal with manlike things, he must read only the bravest and noblest books,—books forged at the heart and fashioned by the intellect of a godlike man.—JANUARY SEARLE.
The ocean of literature is without limit. How then shall we be able to perform a voyage, even to a moderate distance, if we waste our time in dalliance on the shore? Our only ho...
5. CHAPTER V.The greatest problem presented to the consideration of parents and teachers now-a-days is how properly to regulate and direct the reading of the children. There is no scarcity o...
7. CHAPTER VII.Let us search more and more into the Past; let all men explore it as the true fountain of knowledge, by whose light alone, consciously or unconsciously employed, can the Present...
1. CHAPTER I.The choice of books is not the least part of the duty of a scholar. If he would become a man, and worthy to deal with manlike things, he must read only the bravest and noblest b...
4. CHAPTER IV.These books of mine, as you well know, are not drawn up here for display, however much the pride of the eye may be gratified in beholding them; they are on actual service.—SOUTHEY.
2. CHAPTER II.And as for me, though I con but lite, On bookes for to rede I me delite, And to hem yeve I faith and credence, And in my herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that there is ga...
3. CHAPTER III.All round the room my silent servants wait,— My friends in every season, bright and dim Angels and seraphim Come down and murmur to me, sweet and low, And spirits of the skies a...
9. CHAPTER IX.“The books which help you most are those which make you think the most,” says Theodore Parker. “The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Geography is learned best by the careful reading of books of travel. Pupils would derive infinitely more knowledge by the use, under judicious instructors, of a library of this...
10. CHAPTER X.This is that noble Science of Politics, which is equally removed from the barren theories of the utilitarian sophists, and from the petty craft, so often mistaken for statesmans...
6. CHAPTER VI.What sort of reading are our schools planting an appetite for? Are they really doing anything to instruct and form the mental taste, so that the pupils on leaving them may be sa...