Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...LECTURE. Wednesday eve., June 10, at 7.30, a lecture will be given in N. H. 2 at 68 Thayer. I shall cover fully that part of the half year's work not in Huxley, and shall take up Huxley somewhat in detail. M. W. Richardson...
...LECTURE. Wednesday eve., June 10, at 7.30, a lecture will be given in N. H. 2 at 68 Thayer. I shall cover fully that part of the half year's work not in Huxley, and shall take up Huxley somewhat in detail. M. W. Richardson...
...Prof. Huxley of the Eton corporation in his evidence before the Select Committee on Education, Science, and Art of last year, thus pronounced his opinion on the present curricula of public schools: "I do not disguise my conviction that the whole theory on which our present educational system is based, is wrong from top to bottom; that the subjects which are now put down as essential, and on which the most stress is laid, are luxuries, so to speak; and that those which are regarded as comparatively unessential, and as luxurious are essentials. For example, it is perfectly possible under...
There can be little doubt, says the London Athenaeum, that Prof. Huxley in these trenchant criticisms was glancing at Eton. Not that Eton is a sinner above other public schools; but instead of taking the load with its large endowments and prestige, naturally enough it has followed in the wake of Rugby, and other foundations, and in the matter of Latin verse, which we may take as the touch-stone of a reforming, or a non-reforming school, has shown itself the most conservative of them all. The first step to any real reform of studies is the abolition...
...this country. They claim that until a student attains the English or German standard, a classical education should be prescribed for him. In view of this claim the fact acquires interest that there is a considerable movement in England for making the classics elective in the preparatory schools. Professor Huxley, the noted scientist, and, moreover, one of the governing body of Eton, has said, palpably referring to Latin and Greek, that the subjects which are now put down in the school curriculum as essentials, are, in fact, luxuries. And no less an authority than the London Athenaeum declares that compulsory...