...abreast with his age. Carlyle has pointed out the true relation of the teacher to the book. "All that the university or final highest school can do for us is...what the first school began doing, teach us to read." And yet how few of the multitude who annually carry their parchments from our colleges can be said...

...for the Thirteenth, has not yet come into existence. If we think of it, all that a University, or_ final highest School can do for us, is still but what the first^ School began doingj^teachusjof^^^ We learn to read, in various languages, in various sciences ; we learn the alphabet...

...the highest. For what is the highest university but a school! As Carlyle says, all that a university can do for us is still but what the first school began doing — teach us to read. If we could do anything towards organizing such a course of study, we would help to solve a pressing...

...contribution as " Helps " to that end. Yet if one agrees with Carlyle, it is no small matter he has essayed: " If we think of it, all that a university, or final highest school can do for us, is still what the first school began doing, — teach us to read. We learn to read, in various languages, in...

...to read and to get the most out of books is the important thing in our school training. Carlyle has said : If we think of it, all that a university, or...the first school began doing, — teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences ; we learn the alphabet and letters of all...

...much of this apparently casual stimulation as in the high-school library. In the words of Carlyle: "All that a university or final highest school can...the first school began doing, — teach us to read. We learn to read, in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all...

...merely to read, but to reason. We may well bear in mind, however, the words of Carlyle : " All that the university, or final highest school, can do for us...the first school began doing, teach us to read." The question of educational aim may be debatable eternally; there are currents and eddies in educational...

...its greatest university ought to have? BOOKS AS "If We think of it, all that MEMORIALS a unjversjty or final highest school, can do for us, is still but...the first school began doing — teach us to read" said Carlyle in a statement of broad application. "We learn to read, in various languages, in various...

...has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic presewation in the pages of books. . . . All that a university or final highest school can do for us is, is still hut what the first school began doing— teach us to read. — Thomas Carlyle, The Hero as...

...how they were written, but somewhat indifferent as to how we should read them. Carlyle has somewhere said, " If we think of it, all that a University,...the first school began doing — teach us to read." True literature is never obsolete ; but each generation requires, its own interpreters. The commercial...