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" 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 162
by Paul Monroe - 1907 - 409 pages
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Vittorino Da Feltre and Other Humanist Educators: Essays and Versions: An ...

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...
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Thomas Platter and the Educational Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century

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...
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A Text-book in the History of Education: By Paul Monroe

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...
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Studies in French Education from Rabelais to Rousseau

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...
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What Do We Mean by Education?

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...
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History of Education: A Survey of the Development of Educational Theory and ...

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,...
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The Education of Women During the Renaissance

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...
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Studies in Philology, Volumes 14-15

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...
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The Privilege of Education: A History of Its Extension

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...
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Death and Liffe: An Alliterative Poem

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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