Capitolo 69
effort. You can know more than Egypt and of Egyptian history the culture,,
hieroglyphics and language in some five-day weeks to Luxor or Sakkarah
what in one year to the Skylight and the British Museum. The Graves of the
Kings are worth many papyris. The mere sight of the times and obelisks
and monuments and registrations, in the places where their creators
originally it erected them, it gives a sense of the reality and it interests in them
everybody that any amount of study under the alien conditions can possibly equalize.
We have all of us felt that the only place to observe Flemish art to the
the greatest advantage is to Ghent and Bruges and Brussels and Antwerp; only
as the only place to really learn Florentine art as was it is to the
Offices and the Bargello.
These things that are so, the authorities that have position of our public
education, primary, secondary, and tertiary you/he/she has decided in them
wisdom--to do and to force the contrary exact. Object-lessons and the
to be visible for preferable admission to rote-lessons and the audible ones,
they has prescribed that our education, so he/she called, it will mainly be a
education not in things and ownership, but in it books and reading. Them
you/he/she has established that will almost entirely give and exclusively with
language and with languages; that puts in words, not the objects, will be the facts
it thrills on the minds of the pupils. In our elementary schools them
you/he/she has insisted on nothing but reading and writing, with only a
flouring of the arithmetic from way of science. In our secondary schools
they has insisted on nothing but the Greek and Latin with around a peer,
yeast of algebra and the geometry. These mediaevals go (I have delighted that
I can agree so once for with Teacher Ray Lankester) they has pushed
down the throats of the whole world indiscriminately; so a lot so that
people as soon as they finally seem today able to conceive of some anything else other than a
linguistic education as possible. You will feel very good people that speaks
with contempt of the Greek and Latin; but when you come to ask that that new