Education as Growth

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Excerpt from Education as Growth: Or the Culture of Character, A Book for Teachers' Reading Circles, Normal Classes, and Individual TeachersPerhaps no sane person ever lived to be fifty years of age without wishing at least once that he could live his life over again, bringing back to his youth the experience of his maturity. Realizing that this is impossible for himself, he earnestly de sires that his children, and, if his sympathies are broad, other young people, shall become wise ere it is too late to profit by their wisdom. But in his anxiety for the young be frequently mistakes knowl edge for wisdom, and in his theory of education he is liable to leave out of account that growth or development of the soul which alone makes a person capable of using aright his treasures of acquired learning. This little book is devoted to a discussion of the best ways of attaining sound character through the process of acquiring an edu cation under the discipline of the school and other.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.