We call those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man; those studies by which we attain and practice virtue and wisdom,- that education which calls forth, trains, and develops those highest gifts of body and mind which ennoble men and which are... A Brief Course in the History of Education - Page 162by Paul Monroe - 1907 - 409 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Harrison Woodward - Classical education - 1897 - 282 pages
...full devotion to those liberal studies which I must now set forth. § 3. We call those studies liberai which are worthy of a free man; those" studies by which we attain and prartisp virtue and wisdom; that pHvu-atinri whi'cll falls forth, trains and aeveiops~'those higfiest... | |
| Paul Monroe - Education - 1904 - 272 pages
...early renaissance educators of Italy, defines the meaning of education in the following terms : f' We call those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man ; those studies by which we attain and practise virtue and wisdom; that education which calls forth, trains, and develops those highest gifts... | |
| Paul Monroe - Education - 1905 - 814 pages
...education about 1374 which was widely influential and even widely used as a text in schools, in which he formulated the conception of education as follows...are worthy of a free man ; those studies by which w« attain and practice virtue and wisdom ; that education which calls forth, trains, and develops... | |
| Geraldine Emma Hodgson - Education - 1908 - 262 pages
...thinkers. The Italian humanists, as no one can deny, had cared greatly for conduct. Vergerius writes : " We call those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man ; those studies by which we attain and practise virtue and wisdom ; that education which calls forth, trains and develops those highest gifts... | |
| James Welton - Education - 1914 - 302 pages
...those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man ; those studies by which we attain and practise virtue and wisdom ; that education which calls forth,...are rightly judged to rank next in dignity to virtue only."3 But it is only by implication and indirectly that such statements have any reference to the... | |
| Patrick Joseph McCormick - Education - 1915 - 448 pages
...attributed to each study its place in a liberal education. "We call those studies liberal," he says, "which are worthy of a free man; those studies by...attain and practice virtue and wisdom; that education liberal which calls forth, trains and develops these highest gifts of body and mind which ennoble men,... | |
| Mary Agnes Cannon - Education, Humanistic - 1916 - 240 pages
...defined by Pier Paolo Vergerio71 in his treatise addressed to Ubertinus of Carrara, about the year 1405 : "We call those studies liberal which are worthy of...develops those highest gifts of body and of mind which enoble men and which are rightly judged to rank next in dignity to virtue only. For to a vulgar temper... | |
| Philology - 1917 - 692 pages
...activity, is unworthy of the true Citizen." 28 Equally significant is the definition of Vergerius: "we call those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man; those studies by which we attain and practise virtue and wisdom; that education which calls forth, trains, and develops those highest gifts... | |
| George Leroy Jackson - Education - 1918 - 152 pages
...study of the liberal arts. As Vergerius, writing in the fifteenth century, says: . . . those studies which are worthy of a free man; those studies by which...trains and develops those highest gifts of body and mind which ennoble men. . . , 24 In all respects the revived liberal education runs true to original... | |
| John Marcellus Steadman (Jr.) - 1918 - 376 pages
...activity, is unworthy of the true Citizen." 2* Equally significant is the definition of Vergerius: "we call those studies liberal which are worthy of a free man; those studies by which we attain and practise virtue and wisdom; that education which calls forth, trains, and develops those highest gifts... | |
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