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" To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function. "
Transactions of the American Pediatric Society - Page 7
by American Pediatric Society - 1909
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The Psychological Principles of Education: A Study in the Science of Education

Herman Harrell Horne - 1906 - 460 pages
...proclaimed by Spencer in his 1 Davidson, "Rousseau," p. 177. 2 Op. cil., p. 176. famous statement, "To fit us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge," for to Plato this statement would have been acceptable, but to him "complete living" would have contemplated...
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Ruskin on Education: Some Needed But Neglected Elements ; Restated and Reviewed

William Jolly - 1907 - 192 pages
...conduct in all directions, * Sesame and Lilies, § 42. *• t Ibid. § 2. under all circumstances. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge." That is the true, the only key-note to the harmonies of life. All others, however specious, however...
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Englische Studien, Volume 35

Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Arthur Kölbing, Reinald Hoops, Albert Wagner - 1905 - 490 pages
...zielen. Das ergibt sich schon aus dem worte Spencer's, das die herausgeber als motto gewählt haben: "To prepare us for complete living is the function which Education has to discharge." Der erste, von Sir Philip Magnus geschriebene leitartikel ist denn auch Herbert Spencer als pädagogen...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 202

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - 686 pages
...ulterior object of state intervention in education. Herbert Spencer's aphorism is appropriate here : ' To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ' ; and ' complete li ving ' includes much more than ability in business. The State must set forth on a higher...
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Transactions of the Indiana Horticultural Society, Volume 22

Indiana Horticultural Society, Indiana Horticultural Society. Annual Meeting - 1883 - 160 pages
...their firmest friends. The great question of life is how to live ; how to live in the widest sense; how to live completely. To prepare us for complete...rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function So far as we are able to judge, the Industrial...
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The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader

Susan Harris Smith, Melanie Dawson - 2000 - 488 pages
...great thing needful for us to learn, is, by consequence, the great thing which education has to teach. To prepare us for complete living is the function...rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function." Is Spencer as clear a thinker on the subject...
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Music Education: Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today

Michael L. Mark - 2002 - 340 pages
...great thing needful for us to learn, is, by consequence, the great thing which education has to teach. To prepare us for complete living is the function...rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function. . . . Our first step must obviously be to classify,...
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Teacher Training at Cambridge: The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and ...

Pam Hirsch, Mark McBeth - 2004 - 300 pages
...hampered by fewer restraints, and other means than punishments are used to govern him'.' He stated, 'To prepare us for complete living is the function...education has to discharge; and the only rational mode of judgement of any educational course is to judge in what degree it discharges such function.'4 According...
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Schools on the Edge: Responding to Challenging Circumstances

John MacBeath, John M Gray, Jane Cullen, David Frost, Susan Steward, Sue Swaffield - 2006 - 167 pages
...family ...to behave as a citizen .... To utilize those resources for happiness that nature supplies .... how to live completely .... To prepare us for complete...is the function which education has to discharge. (Spencer, 1861: 6) and so on, melted away with the pressure for 'coverage' of the National Curriculum....
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Gigantic Book of Teacher's Wisdom

Erin Gruwell - 2007 - 808 pages
...must try to produce. — VIRGINIA GILDERSLEEVE, FROM HER BOOK MANY A GOOD CRUSADE (1954) To prepare for complete living is the function which education...discharge; and the only rational mode of judging of an education course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function. — HERBERT SPENCER, FROM...
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