Capitolo 68
some culture is from eye, not from ear. Therefore the authorities that
prescribes for us our education among all the classes you/he/she has decided that us
it will learn from ear, not from eye. What it is it is probable that only that are waited from
an interest dressed of the sacred hangings.
Clearly this superiority of sight that feels on it is pre-very true
of natural science--that is to say, of nine-tenth among the subjects
value that learns from humanity. The only true way of learning the geology, for
example, is not to study very above it in a printed text-book, but to go in the
I live with the hammer of a geologist. The only true way of learning the zoology and
botany not being is not reading a volume of natural history, but picking up,
sectioning, observing, preserving, and comparing champions. Therefore,
the natural science has not clearly been never, a study of favourite in the eyes
of school-masters that prefer those subjects in which can be taught a
lodgings to a line of boys on a bench, and that care I lead a great quantity that
nothing for some subject that is not "good to examine in." Instructive
value and the importance in after life has been sacrificed to the teacher
ease and convenience, or to the promptness with which the pupil
progress can be examined on paper. What is best to learn, but what is
the less acts to teach in the great teams to boys, forms the brace of ours
education English and modern. They call him/it to Them "education", I observe in the
papers, and I suppose that we have to fall in with that whim of the profession.
But the subjects that belong from rights to the ear are also able nevertheless
is taught more quickly by the eye. Each knows how much easier it is
to get up the history and the geography of a country when indeed you are
in him that when you are reading only around him. Alive and it stirs
before You. The places, the people, the monuments, the events, everybody
becomes true to You. Each illustrates each, and each extends to thrill the
other on the memory. Sight burns them in the brain without aware