The Great Modern Perversion of Education
| Autor: | Auberon Herbert |
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| Rok vydání: | 1888 |
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| Zdroj: | Nature. 39:102-103 |
| ISSN: | 1476-4687 0028-0836 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/039102a0 |
| Popis: | I THINK Mr. Victor Dickins will admit on second thoughts that he has hardly taken pains enough to slay the dragon that confronts him. In his letter to you he says, “I have shown above that competition does not produce any of the evil results complained of in the protest,” but the special—if not the only—point to which he addressed himself was, I think, to show that the great prize-winners carried on their success into afterlife. Now, the protest never asserted or implied that many prize-winners did not succeed fairly well in after-life. Could this be asserted, the charge against such examinations would be so overwhelming and so easy of proof, that the hours of their survival would be few to count. What the protest asserted was that from time to time—“fairly often,” might perhaps stand as the translation of the words “again and again”—the great promise of the brilliant young man comes to nothing; that is to say, this happens sufficiently often to warn us, even if no other warnings existed, that our system may be injuring instead of benefiting, may be restricting and destroying mental powers instead of enlarging them. |
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