| Alfred Barry - 1848 - 374 pagina’s
...this connexion, the following definition of a liberal education, by Sir WM. HAMILTON, is given : " An education in which the individual is cultivated,...but as an end unto himself alone ; in other words, as an education in which his absolute perfection as a man, and not merely his relative dexterity as... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 pagina’s
...European schools and universities, allow to that study, at best, only a subordinate utility as a meai, of liberal education ; — that is, an education in which...but as an end unto himself alone ; in other words, an education, in which his absolute perfection as a man, and not merely his relative dexterity as a... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 pagina’s
...European schools and universities, allow to that study, at best, only a subordinate utility as a mean of liberal education; — that is, an education in which...the individual is cultivated, not as an instrument toward some ulterior end, but as an end unto himself alone; in other words, an education, in which... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 832 pagina’s
...European schools and universities, allow to that study, at best, only a subordinate utility as a mean of liberal education; — that is, an education in which...the individual is cultivated, not as an instrument toward some ulterior end, but as an end unto himself alone; in other words, an education, in which... | |
| Columbia University - 1858 - 220 pagina’s
...subject beneath his mighty mind. A liberal education is defined by the late Sir William Hamilton to be a an education in which the individual is cultivated,...end, but as an end unto himself alone: in other words as an education, in which his absolute perfection as a man, and not merely his relative dexterity as... | |
| Columbia University - 1858 - 222 pagina’s
...subject beneath his mighty mind. A liberal education is defined by the late Sir William Hamilton to be " an education in which the individual is cultivated,...but as an end unto himself alone : in other words as an education, in which his absolute perfection as a man, and not merely his relative dexterity as... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 816 pagina’s
...European schools and universities, allow to that study, at best, only a subordinate utility as a mean of liberal education ; — that is, an education in which...the individual is cultivated, not as an instrument toward some ulterior end, but as an end unto himself alone; in other words, an education, in which... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1862 - 638 pagina’s
...shall make the most of him, or enable him to make the most of himself. JOHN OKOTE. A liberal education is an education in which the individual is cultivated,...but as an end unto himself alone; in other words, an education in which his absolute perfection as a man, and not merely his relative dexterity as a... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1866 - 1222 pagina’s
...European schools and universities, allow to that study, at hest, only a subordinate utility as a mean of liberal education — that is, an education in which...but as an end unto himself alone ; in other words, an education, in which his absolute perfection as a man, and not merely his relative dexterity as a... | |
| William Lucas Sargant - 1870 - 406 pagina’s
...European schools and universities, allow to that study, at best, only a subordinate utility as a mean of liberal education ; — that is, an education in which...as a professional man, is the scope immediately in view."(17) "Descartes," says Voltaire, "was the greatest mathematician of his age ; but mathematics... | |
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