Cambridge Essays on EducationArthur Christopher Benson At the University Press, 1918 - 232 psl. |
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A. C. BENSON activities Agnosticism Ananias and Sapphira Aristotle athlete become Board of Education boarding school boy's boys called Cambridge citizen citizenship civics civilised classes classics Council cricket curriculum desire difficulty discipline educa elementary school encouraged England English exercise experience fact faculty football FRANK ROSCOE George Meredith girls give Greek head master Herodotus human ideal imagination individual intellectual interests kind knowledge language Latin learning least leisure less lessons literary literature living MAGDALENE COLLEGE Matthew Arnold means ment methods mind modern nation nature object occupation opportunity organisation perhaps Plato play pleasure possible practical principle problems public school pupils pursuits realise reason recognised regard religion schoolboy schoolmaster scientific secondary schools sense social society spirit sympathy taught things thought Thucydides tion true vocation whole young
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