The Manchester Grammar School 1515-1915: A Regional Study of the Advancement of Learning in Manchester, Since the Reformation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mumford, Alfred A.

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ISBN 10: 1331101107 ISBN 13: 9781331101109

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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IN his famous treatise on The Advancement of Learning,' Francis Bacon was principally concerned with the organised body of knowledge as it existed in the time of James I. He described the dignity, the power, and the utility of the various departments of learning and the causes which impeded or fostered its growth. He praised the existing foundations and endowments but he showed little interest in the aims and aspirations of the founders, and regarded learning as the peculiar possession of the leisured and professional classes. He was Opposed rather than favourable to the multiplication of grammar schools for the people.

Now that democracy has displaced absolutism as the form of national government, the position of learning in the Commonwealth has undergone a change. Since all citizens have to take their part in a complex system of govern ment, and the majority have to earn their living in an ever-changing civilisation, the need for a wider intellectual and moral training has steadily grown. Some elementary education has always been provided, but, as the need of the democracy to classify its members according to their natural abilities rather than their material possessions became manifest, a constantly increasing extension of educational opportunity has been found necessary to permit those who have more intelligence and character than their fellows to find proper means for their development. Advanced as well as elementary education has thus become a national matter.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331101107
• ISBN 13: 9781331101109
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 608