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Excerpt from The Philosophy of Education: Being the Foundations of Education in the Related Natural and Mental Sciences "What, then, is education, and how are we to educate? As yet there is no agreement on these points. Men are not agreed as to what the young should learn, with a view either to perfect training or the best life. It is not agreed whether education is to aim at the development of the intellect or of the moral character. Nor is it clear whether, in order to bring about these results, we are to train in what leads to virtue, in what is useful for ordinary life, or in abstract science." These are modern words from Aristotle. They indicate for us the Babel of voices in the educational world. The times call not for another voice, louder than the others, but, if it can be had, for a quiet vision of the compelling truth. I have simply attempted in the following pages to help remove the veil from the face of educational truth, in the light of which, perhaps, some confused teacher may find the way to his appointed task. I have no war to wage, not even a battle to fight, wherewith to feast the eye of workers hungry for the bread of educational life. 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.