University Education

Cover
Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1851 - 124 Seiten
 

Ausgewählte Seiten

Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen

Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 54 - All of them (the colleges) teach Greek and Latin, but where are our classical scholars ? All teach mathematics, but where are our mathematicians ? We might ask the same questions concerning the other sciences taught among us. There has existed for the last twenty years a great demand for civil engineers. Has this demand been supplied from our colleges...
Seite 69 - Then, too, we shall have no more acute distinctions drawn between scholastic and practical education ; for, it will be seen that all true education is practical, and that practice without education is little worth : and, then there will be dignity, grace, and a resistless charm about scholarship and the scholar.
Seite 23 - Secondly, they send forth among the people educated men in the different commanding offices of life. Every educated man among the people becomes the centre of a genial kindling influence, manifesting the power and diffusing the charm of intellectual cultivation. The stream of educated men constantly flowing out, leads to a constant influx of youths to be educated. Thus by two currents is the highest intelligence keeping up a communication with the lowest, multiplying the number of the learned, and...
Seite 33 - ... enforce this obligation of public teaching, compulsory on all graduates during the term of their necessary regency, if there did not come forward a competent number of voluntary regents to execute this function ; and as the schools belonging to the several faculties, and in which alone all public or ordinary instruction could be delivered, were frequently inadequate to accommodate the multitude of the...
Seite 50 - In our country we have no Universities. Whatever may be the names by which we choose to call our institutions of learning, still they are not Universities. They have neither libraries and material of learning, generally, nor the large and free organization which go to make up Universities.
Seite 32 - Bachelor, or imperfect graduate, partly as an exercise toward the higher honor, and useful to himself, partly as a performance due for the degree obtained, and of advantage to others, was bound to read under a master or doctor in his faculty, a course of lectures ; and the Master, Doctor, or perfect graduate, was, in like manner, after his promotion, obliged immediately to commence (incipcre), and to continue for a certain period publicly to teach (regerc), some at least of the subjects appertaining...
Seite 39 - Chancellorship of Laud. They are antiquated institutions, which do not meet the requirements, of a new age. As the Universities grew out of the Church, are in their origin Church institutions, their condition will be found to keep pace with that of the Church. Hence, in Spain, where the Schoolmen were longest cherished, and where the power of the Priesthood extended over everything, the Universities, instead of advancing with enlightened Europe, have remained fixed in scholastic and ecclesiastical...
Seite 16 - ... active life with the capacity of estimating from the highest points of view all the knowledges and agencies which enter into the well-being and progress of society. That is not really the most practical education which leads men soonest and most directly to practice, but that which fits them best for practice.
Seite 46 - Professors were appointed, but they discharged only the duty of tutors in the higher grades of study ; so that the tutors were really assistant professors, or the professors only tutors of the first rank. Our Colleges also have from the beginning conferred degrees in all the faculties, which in England belongs only to the University. By establishing the faculties of Theology, Law, and Medicine, some of our colleges have approached still more nearly to the forms and functions of a University. By assuming...
Seite 103 - Historico-critical introduction to the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, by Lie. Uhlemann, four times a week. The exercises of an exegetical society on the passages of the prophets respecting the Messiah, are directed by the same professor, once a week, gratis. Genesis explained in Latin, four times a week, gratis. Principal parts of Genesis explained by Prof. Bellermann, twice a week. The Psalms explained, four times a week, by Dr.

Bibliografische Informationen