Capitolo 15
What common sense really requires, then it is education in the principal results,
of all the sciences--a knowledge of that that is known, not necessarily a
knowledge of every following footstep from which men came to know him/it. To
present, clearly in all of our schools in England there is anybody systematic
teaching at all of knowledge; what replaces him/it is a teaching of the
facts of language, and to a large extent of useless facts, or also of
exploded fictions. Our public schools, especially (from that the sentence us
never the bad true schools of public like the schools of axle to everybody, but only
schools for the superior and the middle classes) it is him theirs to exist
you primarily stage the great gyms--very good things, also in their way,
against that I don't have a word of blame; and, secondarily, places for
imparting a fictitious and defective knowledge of some few philological facts
approximately two extinct languages. Pupils find a flouring of Homer and
Cicero. That is literally the whole equipment for the life that the cleverest
and the most greater part of industrious boys are ever able toglierloro. The more fool or
idle not door away also that. As to the "mental training" the matter,
it went out so often to the trot, it is childish enough not to be value answering.
What practically useful is to us in the life--knowledge of the Latin
the grammar or knowledge of us and the world in which we live, physical,
social, moral? That is the question.
Truth is, schoolmastering in Britain an enormous suit of the sacred hangings is become
interest in the hands of men that don't have anything to teach us. They tries
sustains on their vicious system from so artificial matters as the
"mental training" the fallacy. Forced to admit the absolute uselessness of the
false knowledge that they imparts, they falls again on the declaration of his
hidden and supposed value as it disciplines intellectual. They says in
effect:--"This sawdust that we offer us him doesn't contain food, we know: but then
see how strengthens the jaws to chew him/it!" Besides you look at ours,