| James Welton - Education - 1899 - 318 pages
...turns to disciplinary value and begins his remarks with the following petitio : — " Having found what is best for the one end, we have by implication...mental exercise best fitted for strengthening the facultiesi It would be utterly contrary to the beautiful economy of Nature, if one kind of culture... | |
| Gabriel Compayré - Education - 1907 - 144 pages
...from the finality of Nature and its wise and benevolent intentions. "We may be quite sure," he says, "that the acquirement of those classes of facts which...exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties." To think otherwise "would be utterly contrary to the beautiful economy of Nature." J In other words,... | |
| Herbert Spencer - Philosophy - 1910 - 320 pages
...treat with comparative brevity; and happily, no very lengthened treatment of it is needed. Having found what is best for the one end, we have by implication...that the acquirement of those classes of facts which arc most useful for regulating conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening the... | |
| Chauncey Peter Colegrove - Teachers - 1910 - 434 pages
...allimportant and needful study, and disposed of the theory of formal discipline in the words: "We may be sure that the acquirement of those classes of facts...exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties." (3) The Theory of Socializing the Individual. — This, in the main, is the criterion adopted by the... | |
| Chauncey Peter Colegrove - Teachers - 1910 - 448 pages
...valuable for knowledge, we have found by implication what studies are best for mental discipline, and that the acquirement of those classes of facts which...exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties." And while we may not accept this conclusion as true in every case, still, in the main, it is a safer... | |
| Chauncey Peter Colegrove - Teachers - 1910 - 438 pages
...theory of formal discipline in the words: "We may be sure that the acquirement of those classes pf facts which are most useful for regulating conduct...exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties." (3) The Theory of Socializing the Individual. — This, in the main, is the criterion adopted by the... | |
| William Carl Ruediger - Education - 1910 - 326 pages
...words " specific " and " general " as used on page 162 be defined ? 3. Is Spencer necessarily right ? " We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those classes of facts which are most useful in regulating conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening the faculties. It would... | |
| Alexander James Inglis - Education, Secondary - 1918 - 770 pages
...mental "faculties"- — a conclusion which he reaches by a most naive course of reasoning. Having found what is best for the one end, we have by implication...We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those acts which are most useful for regulating conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening... | |
| Alexander James Inglis - Education, Secondary - 1918 - 780 pages
...mental "faculties" — a conclusion which he reaches by a most naive course of reasoning. Having found what is best for the one end, we have by implication...We may be quite sure that the acquirement of those acts which are most useful for regulating conduct, involves a mental exercise best fitted for strengthening... | |
| American essays - 1883 - 1000 pages
...partly for the sake of discipline. But " we may be quite sure," he says, " that the acquirement of those facts which are most useful for regulating conduct...strengthening the faculties. It would be utterly contrary t6 the beautiful economy of Nature if one kind of culture were needed for the gaining of information,... | |
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