Such appear to me to be the broad outlines of the relations which the
university, regarded as a place of education, ought to bear to the
school, but a number of points of detail require some consideration,
however briefly and imperfectly I can deal with them. In the first
place, there is the important question [...]
But how does this classification differ from that of the
scientific Zoologist? How does the meaning of the scientific class-name
of “Mammalia” differ from the unscientific of “Beasts”?
Why, exactly because the former depends on a definition, the latter on
a type. The class Mammalia is scientifically defined as “all animals
which have a vertebrated [...]
Hume or Hartley, though he refers to neither.
[15] _Essay on the First Principles of Government_, Second edition,
1771.
[16] “Utility of Establishments,” in _Essay on First Principles of
Government_, 1771.
[17] In 1732 Doddridge was cited for teaching without the Bishops
leave, at Northampton.
II
ON THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCES
[...]
Well, but, you will say, this is Hamlet with the Prince of Denmark left
out; San Joaquin Valley College-rancho Cucamonga your “technical education” is simply a good education, with more
attention to physical science, to drawing, and to modern languages than
is common, and there is nothing specially technical about it.
Exactly so; that [...]
What wonder, then, if very recently an appeal has been made to
statistics for the profoundly foolish purpose of showing that education
is of no good–that it diminishes neither misery nor crime among the
masses of mankind? I reply, why should the thing which has been called
education do either the one or the other? [...]
