Mike Pierce

Education has at all times had a twofold aim, namely instruction and training in good conduct.

The function of the teacher, however, is not merely to mitigate the heat of current controversies.

We cannot therefore frame our education with a view to giving everyone the temperament of a poet.

Passive acceptance of the teacher’s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls.

I shall assume that universities exist for two purposes: on the one hand, to train men and women for certain professions; on the other hand, to pursue learning and research without regard to immediate utility.

The subject of this address is the organisation of thought, a topic evidently capable of many diverse modes of treatment.

What are the qualities of mind which a mathematical training is designed to produce when it is employed as an element in a liberal education?

The conclusion at which we arrive is, that mathematics, if it is to be used in general education, must be subjected to a rigorous process of selection and adaptation.

What I mean is this: you must make up your mind to find the best part of your happiness in kindly helpful relations with others.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connexion between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

In classics we endeavour by a thorough study of language to develop the mind in the regions of logic, philosophy, history and of æsthetic apprehension of literary beauty.

The curse that has been laid on humanity, in fable and in fact, is, that by the sweat of its brow shall it live.

The only avenue towards wisdom is by freedom in the presence of knowledge.

The pupil’s progress is often conceived as a uniform steady advance undifferentiated by change of type or alteration in pace … I hold that this conception of education is based upon a false psychology of the process of mental development which has gravely…

In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call “inert ideas”—that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilised, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.

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