 | University of North Dakota - 1924 - 420 pages
...modern campus and the modern world. Let us make our own here the noble definition of education given by Milton, "I call therefore a complete and generous...education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." A little... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1968 - 1606 pages
...(1) "It is a great end of education to raise us above the vulgar." Richard Steele, 1709. (2) "I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." John Milton,... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell, Raymond Walters, Will Carson Ryan - Education - 1915 - 536 pages
...tractate on Education gave a marvellously clear outline of what the state conceives education to be: I call, therefore, a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, MAT 22, 1915] SCHOOL AND SOCIETY 723 skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and... | |
 | Katherine U. Henderson, Barbara F. McManus - Women - 1985 - 404 pages
...God aright," the second, equally stressed by Milton, is readiness for the active life on this earth: "I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." 74 The second... | |
 | Harold Dwight Lasswell, Myres Smith Macdougal - Law - 1992 - 1642 pages
...before human society. A greatly enriched idea of education was gaining currency, and John Milton wrote, "I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war."14 It must... | |
 | David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - History - 1998 - 300 pages
...Tribe of Aphorismers, and Pol1t1casters\M In Oj Education (1644), he contrasted his Ciceronian ideal of education 'that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the oiIices both private and publike of peace and war' with the actual outcome of the 'usuall method of... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - History - 2002 - 628 pages
...commonly set hefore them as all the food and entertainment of their tenderrst and most docihle age, I call therefore a complete and generous education,...perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offires, hoth private and puhlic. of peace and war, And how all this may he done hetween twelve and... | |
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I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war. 
