Proceedings at the Inauguration of Frederick A.P. Barnard; S. T. D., LL. D., as President of Columbia College, on Monday, October 3, 1864 - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865. Excerpt: ... INAUGUKAL DISCOURSE. The occasion on which we are assembled, the ceremonial in which we participate, and the associations naturally clustering round a spot which learning has hallowed by making it her seat, would seem to leave little choice in regard to the theme which should occupy us to-day. A noble institution devoted to the highest mental culture of generous youth, after more than a century of honorable usefulness and distinguished success, is about entering upon another year of its beneficent labors; and at this moment the guidance of its operations and the guardianship of its interests afe committed to an untried hand. It would be in accordance with a generally prevalent usage, and would be possibly also a compliance with general expectation, that the brief space allotted me on this occasion should be devoted to a declaration of the views by which, as an educationist, I expect to be governed, and according to which I desire to see the course of education conducted in this institution. If I do not conform to this usage or meet this expectation, it is not because there is anything in those views uncertain or doubtful; or anything which I apprehend, before an enlightened audience like this, would be likely to meet with dissent; but rather because, on the other hand, I have already so often and so fully made them public, as to leave me no reason to suspect that they are either unknown or misapprehended. The subject of education is one which has occupied the most thoughtful minds of every age; and it is probable that the fundamental principles which should direct a truly liberal education may be as clearly deduced from the writings of Aristotle, of Seneca, or of Quintilian, as from those of the most judicious thinkers of modern times. And yet there is pr...

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.