If we feel this as respects the internal economic life of our country,
is it not true also of the international life of the world? In the
stress and competition of our times, the future belongs to the nations
that recognise the worth of Knowledge and Thought, and best understand
how to apply the accumulated experience of the past. In the long run
it is knowledge and wisdom that rule the world, not knowledge only,
but knowledge applied with that width of view and sympathetic
comprehension of men, and of other nations, which are the essence of
statesmanship.
[Footnote 1: This has been clearly seen and admirably stated by the
present President of the Board of Education.]
[Footnote 2: Take for instance this little fragment of Alcman:
Greek: _Ou m heti, parthenikai meligaryest imerophonoi,
Gyia pherein dynatai. Bale de Bale kerylos eien,
Hos t hepi kymatos hanthos ham alkyonessi potetai
Neleges hetor hechon haliporphyros eiaros hornis._
What can be more exquisite than the epithets in the first line, or
more fresh and delicate and tender in imaginative quality than the
three last? A modern poet of equal genius would treat the topic with
equal force and grace, but the charm, the untranslatable charm of
antique simplicity, would be absent.]
I
THE AIM OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM
By J. L. PATON
High Master of Manchester Grammar School
The last century, with all its brilliant achievement in scientific
discovery and increase of production, was spiritually a failure.
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