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Discourse Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at the Opening of Their Third Course of Lectures, August 23, 1832 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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This bold spirit of inquiry, which, when rightly directed, pro duces inestimable good, and, like every other power entrusted to man, when abused, proportionate evil; is, at this time, directed to no subject more generally or more eagerly, than to our established systems of education. The attempts which have been made, in modern times, to bring about beneficial and permanent revolutions in the political and civil organization of nations, to dissolve society into its elements and to reconstruct it on a better model, have been attended with so much suffering and so little success, as to convince reflecting men in general, that a thorough reform in the whole structure of any community is not likely to be peacefully and completely accomplished, by the generation, in which it is first un dertaken, and that the mass of those, who have been trained up with exclusive reference to one state of society, are hardly capable of administering or enjoying one totally different; and hence the immovement of education has come to be regarded by many as the first certain and safe step to all radical and permanent improvements in the condition of men. Here it is, that he must take his stand, who seeks at the present day to move the world.
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This bold spirit of inquiry, which, when rightly directed, pro duces inestimable good, and, like every other power entrusted to man, when abused, proportionate evil; is, at this time, directed to no subject more generally or more eagerly, than to our established systems of education. The attempts which have been made, in modern times, to bring about beneficial and permanent revolutions in the political and civil organization of nations, to dissolve society into its elements and to reconstruct it on a better model, have been attended with so much suffering and so little success, as to convince reflecting men in general, that a thorough reform in the whole structure of any community is not likely to be peacefully and completely accomplished, by the generation, in which it is first un dertaken, and that the mass of those, who have been trained up with exclusive reference to one state of society, are hardly capable of administering or enjoying one totally different; and hence the immovement of education has come to be regarded by many as the first certain and safe step to all radical and permanent improvements in the condition of men. Here it is, that he must take his stand, who seeks at the present day to move the world.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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