The Principles of Rational Education (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Principles of Rational Education I have myself suffered but little from the disadvantage of a Public School and University education, and to this fortunate escape I attribute whatever success I have achieved in life, and whatever of originality, sound reasoning, and decent English there may be in my published works. I look with no selfish complacency upon my good fortune. I hear with anguish the wails of my academic friends, who bemoan the wasted years that they spent in Public Schools and Universities, the lost opportunities, the barren grind, the senseless routine that crushed the originality out of them, and turned them into the world utterly ignorant of it and all that it contains, unable to conduct an argument, to recognize a fallacy, or to give a rational ground for a belief, and incompetent to write an intelligible sentence in correct English or in a legible handwriting. It is out of sympathy with the sad spoiling of the lives of dear friends that I have written this book, in the hope that it may do something to leaven public opinion, so that in years to come their grandchildren and great-grandchildren may have such sufferings in mitigated degree. This essay had been in existence for some time as a magazine article, when the publication in the Educational Supplement of The Times of Sir Clifford Allbutt's admirable letters stimulated me to expand it into this small book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.