Word: practicall
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There are schools where these defects are nearly absent. These are the best schools in consequence, but the best school will fail to make much of any one who will not try to improve for his own good. This is a trite saying, but we too often pay trifling attention...
OF the four courses in Chemistry we would advise the student to study well his tastes before making his selection, for the courses differ materially in object. Sophomore chemistry gives a good average knowledge of the province of ordinary inorganic chemistry. While it gives him a little practical and experimental...
MR. BAIN'S treatment of the mind and its faculties is peculiar. Instead of following the beaten path of theoretical philosophy of the past, which is occupied with the mind as a mere abstraction, he attempts to study it in the only way in which a knowledge of it can...
In our days, if a young man has been brilliant in his studies, or even if he has obtained some prize for a Latin poem or Greek theme, it is enough to make him persuade himself that he is born for something other than business or industry of any kind...
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...