| Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - 1884 - 482 páginas
...too far from John Milton's famous and admirable definition of a liberal education. He says, "I call 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." The... | |
| University of North Dakota - 1924 - 420 páginas
...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."... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education - 1968 - 1606 páginas
...(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."... | |
| James McKeen Cattell, Raymond Walters, Will Carson Ryan - 1915 - 536 páginas
...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... | |
| John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 páginas
...perfection. The second definition makes clear what is meant by the emphasis on virtue in the first : I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war. It is... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 304 páginas
...like him," and shortly afterwards declares, in the true spirit of Renaissance Humanism, "I call ... a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He... | |
| Katherine U. Henderson, Barbara F. McManus - 1985 - 404 páginas
...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."... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs - 1985 - 236 páginas
...use educational benefits. In one of his writings on education, the English poet John Milton advocated "A complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully (sic) and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war... | |
| Leland Ryken - 1990 - 306 páginas
...capable and qualified person. No statement of that ideal can rival Milton's in his treatise Of Education: I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.80... | |
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