An Address Before the Sub-Committee of the Boston School Board: Appointed to Consider the Subject of a Reorganization of the Boston High Schools (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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I believe it may safely be affirmed in the first place, that the old plea that the study of the Greek and Roman classics has a certain mysterious disciplinary value for the mind beyond that of any other studies, so that they are to be used as a sort of prelim inary Whetstone to sharpen all boys' wits upon before they can suc cessfully begin those other studies which are to be at the foundation of their life-work, I believe that this educational theory may now be ranked among exploded superstitions.* Every study, it is now beginning to be seen, is a mental discipline just so far as it is pur sued thoroughly and by proper scientific methods; and it is begin ning to be seen, further, that the study of the classics themselves, if pursued as they usually are in our schools, by most bungling and unscientific methods, has been furnishing one of the worst systems of mental discipline that ever was devised, when we take into view the mental wants of its recipients, the hundreds of young men who have heretofore received this pretence of a liberal education. Without denying, therefore, that when properly studied the languages of Greece and Rome may furnish the foundation for a liberal education, the two questions we have to ask ourselves are: first, whether as usually studied among us they do furnish a liberal education at all, and secondly, whether, even if studied in better ways and to better purpose, they would furnish the liberal education best suited to the wants of the majority of lads attend ing the public High Schools of Boston.
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