Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Why Study Latin and Greek? The Classics a Preparation for a Professional and Business Career
Education, at the present day, signifies the storing of the mind with a vast and miscellaneous collection of facts concerning Geography, History, Botany, Chemistry, Phy-i' siology, etc. With the exception of one study, Mathemat ics, the modern curriculum lays an enormous burden upon the memory, which is usually more than it can bear, and leaves the power of reasoning and the aesthetic sense alto gether undeveloped. The U. 8. Commissioner of Educa tion in his report for 1890 says' It is in this matter of arrest of development, produced by two much emphasis on memory studies or mechanical drill work in the elementary and secondary courses of study, that we have most to learn; in fact, the directors of education in all nations have most to learn in this field.
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