Education According to Some Modern Masters

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in EDUCATION ACCORDING TO RUSKIN I LAY down the last of the twenty-six volumes of Ruskin with a heart at once ill at ease and exultant. Ill at ease it is because of the sadnesses of his life, sadnesses born of himself and also of his dissatisfaction with his times; exultant because here is a man who tried, like Sir Henry Lawrence, to do his duty, to see straight and to think clearly, who despised cant and meanness, who in his unflagging courage spoke the thought that was in him and incarnated his own creed. His times were out of joint. He wanted to set them right and they did not care to be set right. He, in later years, spurned some important doctrines of his earlier. Rich for his wants, he made himself poor on his own land. An individualist in his theories of human development, an aristocrat and an autoc