Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This is the result of our system of education, - a result, I am persuaded, not wholly unconnected with our frequent revolutions. On the one hand, our primary instruction is too much neglected. Thousands of voters know not how to read or write. On the other, our secondary instruction is too aristocratic. It should only be the privilege of a small number, and not the common rule for all. Moreover, this instruction draws too exclusively on antique sources. It presents us with the society of antiquity in its most flourishing condition. Sparta, Athens, Rome, are shown us as ideal republics...
...arrive at effecting reforms in our instruction? Those who see in the state the only savior address themselves to it. For my own part, I do not think that the state can accomplish these reforms. In the first place, it must be disposed to do so. In France, you know, we are accustomed to charge the government with our private affairs. It is just the way to have them badly managed. We are still in the times of Louis XIV. He says: "L'Etat, c'est moi." We have not as yet dared to reply: "L'Etat, c'est nous...
...plan works in practice is this. The men may be divided roughly into two classes, - the first consisting of those who know little or nothing about the subject, the second, of those better informed. Members of the first class calculate how many pages they can write in an hour, fill that amount of paper with headings of paragraphs, and are then ready. A consideration which gives the plan a favorable reception among this class is, that they need only find some one who has written out a good abstract and learn it, thereby saving themselves a vast amount of trouble...
...lookers-on, for if they had been respectably clad in a uniform of some kind it might have been quite impossible to distinguish between the two sides; but, as it was, one merely had to notice whether or no a few rags were floating gracefully behind the player, to know to which side he belonged. Indeed, in the last half-hour, one of the Harvard players had excited the spectators to the utmost with the hope that he was about to gain a long-wished-for "touch-down," when one of his pursuers bethought himself of stretching out his hand...
...know the Bowdoin Orient will improve, we feel no scruples in saying that the present number is poor. A threadbare poem opens the number; there is also a poem on "Nosorora" or some such sonorously named female, the whole idea and gist of which is that a girl was going to have a spread and was drowned just before partaking of it. This original plot is clothed in seventeen verses of "full-orbed moon," "castle gray," "quiet stream," "gloomy pall," etc., etc. How long will it be before students will learn that mere permutation of high-sounding epithets to form...