Source Book of the History of Education for the Greek and Roman PeriodMacmillan Company, 1901 - 515 pages |
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... less value as sources than the literary monuments of the past , and which offer corrobora- tive evidence for the use of the historian . The purpose of this volume is to render accessible to the student with limited time and limited ...
... less value as sources than the literary monuments of the past , and which offer corrobora- tive evidence for the use of the historian . The purpose of this volume is to render accessible to the student with limited time and limited ...
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... less and less of wealth and noble birth , and more and more of certain traits of character that could be produced by education . Nobility now became virtue or worth Old Greek Education 3.
... less and less of wealth and noble birth , and more and more of certain traits of character that could be produced by education . Nobility now became virtue or worth Old Greek Education 3.
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... less important and less military in character than at Sparta . The purpose of gymnastic was the development of a sound and beautiful physique , not simply the making of a warrior . Beauty and grace , quite as well as power of endurance ...
... less important and less military in character than at Sparta . The purpose of gymnastic was the development of a sound and beautiful physique , not simply the making of a warrior . Beauty and grace , quite as well as power of endurance ...
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... less cultivated among them Education than a concise dignity of expression . Their songs had a in poetry spirit which could rouse the soul , and impel it in an enthu- siastic manner to action . The language was plain and nanly , the ...
... less cultivated among them Education than a concise dignity of expression . Their songs had a in poetry spirit which could rouse the soul , and impel it in an enthu- siastic manner to action . The language was plain and nanly , the ...
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Paul Monroe. Spartans were less severe when on cam- paigns . else of expressions of detestation for such wretches as had declined the glorious opportunity , and rather chose to drag on life in misery and contempt . Nor did they forget to ...
Paul Monroe. Spartans were less severe when on cam- paigns . else of expressions of detestation for such wretches as had declined the glorious opportunity , and rather chose to drag on life in misery and contempt . Nor did they forget to ...
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Page 282 - And any occupation, art, or science, which makes the body or soul or mind of the freeman less fit for the practice or exercise of virtue, is vulgar; wherefore we call those arts vulgar which tend to deform the body, and likewise all paid employments, for they absorb and degrade the mind.
Page 378 - Alexander, the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation, or joining in an inquiry about the thing itself, not about the word, or by some other fit suggestion.
Page 311 - It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Page 211 - Now, when all these studies reach the point of inter-communion and connection with one another, and come to be considered in their mutual affinities, then, I think, but not till then, will the pursuit of them have a value for our objects; otherwise there is no profit in them.
Page 281 - The citizen should be moulded to suit the form of government under" which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy; and always the better the character, the better the government.
Page 29 - ... acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it, who in the hour of conflict had the fear of...
Page 217 - After that time those who are selected from the class of twenty years old will be promoted to higher honour, and the sciences which they learned without any order in their early education will now be brought together, and they will be able to see the natural relationship of them to one another and to true being.
Page 156 - Neither are comic and tragic actors the same; yet all these things are but imitations. They are so. And human nature, Adeimantus, appears to have been coined into yet smaller pieces, and to be as incapable of imitating many things well, as of performing well the actions of which the imitations are copies.
Page 110 - When they meet together, and the world sits down at an assembly, or in a court of law, or a theatre, or a camp, or in any other popular resort, and there is a great uproar, and they praise some things which are being said or done, and blame other things, equally exaggerating both, shouting and clapping their hands, and the echo of the rocks and the place in which they are assembled redoubles the sound of the praise or blame — at such a time will not a young man's heart, as they say, leap within...
Page 28 - To sum up : I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the most versatility and grace.