Loyola University, College of Liberal Arts, Schools of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Bulletin (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Loyola University

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333439792 ISBN 13: 9781333439798

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

Synopsis

Excerpt from Loyola University, College of Liberal Arts, Schools of Civil Engineering and Architecture; Bulletin

The purpose Of the mental training given in the under graduate courses is not proximately to fit the student for some special employment or profession, but togive him such a general, vigorous and rounded development as will enable him to cope successfully, even with the unforeseen emergencies of life. While giving the mind stay, it tends to remove the insularity of thought and want of mental elasticity, which is one of the most hopeless and disheartening results of specialism in students who have not brought to their studies the uniform mental training given by a systematic college course.

Understanding, then, clearly, the purposes of education, such instruments of education, that is, such studies, sciences or lan guages are chosen as will most effectively further that end. These studies are chosen, moreover, only in proportion and in such num bers as are sufficient and required.

It is fundamental in the system Of the Society of Jesus that different studies have distinct and peculiar educational values. Mathematics, the Natural Sciences, Language and History are complementary instruments Of education to which the doctrine of equivalence cannot be applied. The specific training given by one cannot be supplied by another.

A special importance is attached to the classic tongues of Rome and Greece. As these are languages with a structure and idiom remote from the language of the student, the study of them lays bare before him the laws of thought and logic, and requires attention, reflection and analysis for the fundamental relations between thought and grammar. In studying them the student is led to the fundamental recesses of language. They exercise him in exactness of conception in grasping the foreign thought, and in delicacy of expression in clothing that thought in the dissimilar garb Of the mother-tongue. While recognizing, then, in education, the necessity and importance of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, which unfold the inter-dependence and the laws of the world of time and space, the Jesuit system of education has unwaveringly kept Language in a position of honor as an instrument of culture.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1333439792
• ISBN 13: 9781333439798
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 57