Evolution, Vol. 3: A Journal of Nature; June, 1930 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Evolution, Vol. 3: A Journal of Nature; June, 1930

Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and com plicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never over looks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of over flowing generosity with which the strong shows de light in strength. And one who plays ill is check mated - without haste, but without remorse.

Well, what I mean by Education is learning the rules of this mighty game. In other words, educa tion is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men and their ways; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws. For me, education means neither more nor less than this. Anything which professes to call itself education must be tried by this stand ard, and if it fails to stand the test, I will not call it education, whatever may be the force of author ity or of numbers upon the other side.

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