Bulletin of Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia, Vol. 6 PDF Download

Author: Sweet Briar College
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334020292
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Excerpt from Bulletin of Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia, Vol. 6: Honor Dinner, March 6, 1923; April, 1923 All this is very remarkable - and I should cheerfully vote for her, if I had a vote, as entitled to be called a super-woman. But what particularly interested me was this assertion about her edu cation: TO that beautiful, soul-satisfying, now Old-fashioned equipment called a classical education, with all its aesthetic branches, She was able to add a thoroughly modern, practical department of knowledge concerning business, politics, and current world and domestic events. Here is a super-woman, indeed! Only the versatility Of Queen Elizabeth, according to her latest biography, is comparable to it. And good Queen Bess neither taught school nor climbed mountains, nor was she said to be a particularly good listener! However true or false this may be, I have carried away one sentence from the account which I am going to take as a text for my little address tonight. It is this: What Annie Peck really mastered at the University of Michigan, or somehow, was the art of making acquirements. Now the art Of making acquirements, while hardly one of the fine arts, is fundamental in a liberal educational program. The ideal education is a compound - I hesitate to use the word complex, for I am no psycho analyst - the ideal education is a compound Of knowledge that is useful and knowledge that is useless. I sometimes think that, after all, useless knowledge forms the most valuable part Of our education. I mean, Of course, the information we acquire which has no practical bearing, which has no definite utilitarian end in view. It is the education which enriches personality by enrich ing and refining our thought; ennobles our sentiment by saving us from mere sentimentality; and fosters a wholesome idealism that keeps us from lapsing permanently into the drab and dreary commonplace Of Main Street. Today we are apt to confuse the word training with the word education. The two are not strictly synonymous. Lord Dunsany, the Irish dramatist, makes this wise distinction be tween training and education. He was speaking of his own military training. A trained man, says Lord Dunsany, can do one single thing with almost mechanical perfection; but an educated man can do almost anything that he is called upon to do. I was merely trained. It is better to be educated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.