Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...found with our system of instruction is that we apply it indiscriminately to all students. Now, one has a faculty for philosophy, another for languages; one has a synthetic, another an analytic mind; some, born under the ardent rays of the southern sun, have more imagination than judgment; while others, living in the colder regions of the north, have a more severe character, - with such the reasoning is superior to the other faculties; no matter, the course of study is the same for all. All minds are run into the same mould. The germs of all originality are destroyed, every...
...degree becomes the principal object. The great aim is not to become educated, but to pass one's baccalaureat. The subjects not demanded on the examination are neglected, and even those required are learned in a superficial manner. Instruction becomes wholly a matter of memory, not of reflection, or judgment. The mind is stuffed, not cultivated, and thus studies lose all their attractiveness. From this cause result an early disgust with, and premature forgetfulness of, all things taught in college. Instead of rendering intellectual training attractive, it is made repulsive...
...glory could not fail to be increased by it. Fechter came well advertised to this country, for his arrival was preceded by a letter from Charles Dickens, who seemed fairly carried away by the man's conception of the part, and perhaps a little anxious withal, lest the judgment of American theatre goers should be biassed by national prejudice. But his anxiety was groundless, for Fechter was received with hearty applause and lenient criticism. His conception of the part proved very different from Booth's, nor did it fail to find crowds of admirers, who hastened, perhaps unduly, to transfer...
ANOTHER chapter of College history will soon be closed, and the needed rest of the long summer vacation will give both teachers and students an opportunity to review with calm judgment the results attained during these nine months of toil. The spirit of advance and improvement which has taken possession of the University has already borne good fruit; and the result of the still more important changes which another year is to bring with it is awaited with some anxiety,. but greater hope. The general tone of the College was never better. The whole tendency is one of increasing liberality...
...what, in my opinion, is of still greater importance, namely, education. The object of the first is only to develop mind, but the latter has a larger and higher aim, - it has to do with soul. The former trains the intellectual faculties, the imagination, the memory, the judgment; the latter, the moral faculties, the character, the will. Science is the fruit of instruction; virtue should be the result of a good education. Now, even admitting that instruction in the lyceums is of a superior character, - notwithstanding certain fundamental faults which I may speak of hereafter, - it can be stated without...