 | Herbert Spencer - Education - 1866 - 282 pages
...any improvement, even that improvement implies the use of means ; and amon'g the means is discussion. We are not among those who believe in Lord Palmerston's dogma, that " all childrei^ are born good." On the whole, the opposite dogma, untenable as it is, seems to us less wide... | |
 | Richard Heber Newton - Apologetics - 1885 - 366 pages
...philosopher is forced to a reluctant conservatism here. Listen to Herbert Spencer, in his treatise on education : " We are not among those who believe in...untenable as it is, seems to us less wide of the truth." * Here, then, was a solid substance of most real fact in the problem * " Education " : p. 164. which... | |
 | Mrs. W. I. Malleson - 1885 - 140 pages
...discipline is hopeless. Parents are not good enough." Nor are the children. "We are not," he says, "among those who believe in Lord Palmerston's dogma...untenable as it is, seems to us less wide of the truth." He lays great stress on the " inheritance of defects by children in the average of cases." The only... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 686 pages
...into all of the European languages, including Greek, and into Japanese and Chinese. MORAL EDUCATION. ( From " Education.") WE are not among those who believe...nature may be diminished by wise management, they caimot be removed by it. The notion that an ideal humanity might he forthwith produced by a perfect... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Education - 1904 - 442 pages
...immediate regeneration of society by means of popular education. " We are not among those," he says, " who believe in Lord Palmerston's dogma that ' all...nature may be diminished by wise management, they can not be removed by it. The notion that an ideal humanity might be forthwith produced by a perfect... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Education - 1904 - 442 pages
...immediate regeneration of society by means of popular education. " We are not among those," he says, " who believe in Lord Palmerston's dogma that ' all...nature may be diminished by wise management, they can not be removed by it. The notion that an ideal humanity might be forthwith produced by a perfect... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Education - 1904 - 428 pages
...regeneration of society by means of popular education. " We are not among thx>se," he says, " who r> believe in Lord Palmerston's dogma that ' all children...nature may be diminished by wise management, they can not be removed by it. The notion that an ideal humanity might be forthwith produced by a perfect... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1904 - 844 pages
...contrary, the fory of the old spinster was beyond bounds. VAN. FAIR, I, CH. XXXIV, 380. Contrariwise. Nor do we agree with those who think that, by skilful...though imperfections of nature may be diminished, they cannot be removed by it. SPENC. , EDUC. , CH. Ill, 71a. This request was never before made by... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1926 - 912 pages
...movement, and ran broadside against the fence. WASH. IRV., S ketch - B k., XXXII. 370. contrariwise: Nor do we agree with those who think that, by skilful...are satisfied that, though imperfections of nature can be diminished, they cannot be removed by it. SPENCER, E du c., Ch. Ill, 71 a. leastwise, somewhat... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1858 - 610 pages
...any improvement, eventhat improvement implies the use of means ; and among the 'mean« is discussion. We are not among those who believe in Lord Palmerston's...truth. Nor do we agree with those who think that, by skillful discipline, children may be made altogether what they should be. Contrariwise, we are satisfied... | |
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On the whole, the opposite dogma, untenable as it is, seems to us less wide of the truth. Nor do we agree with those who think that, by skilful discipline, children may be made altogether what they should be. Contrariwise, we are satisfied that though... 
