On the Principles of English University Education

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The considerations which I here offer to the public on the subject of Education, have been suggested by a long and somewhat laborious course of researches on the principles and history of science, and by many years' experience as a tutor in a principal College of the University of Cambridge. I trust, therefore, that I shall stand absolved from all suspicion of approaching so important a subject without due thought and preparation. I have for some time intended, on the first occasion of comparative leisure, to state my views on the points here treated of; and I should have done so, in the same manner, and probably nearly at the same time as I have done, whether or not other pamphlets on questions connected with the English Universities had appeared. I request the reader, therefore, not to mix me up in his thoughts with any controversiesTable of Contents Prefatory Remarks1; Chatter I,-Or the Subjects of University Teaching; Sect 1 Of the Distinction of Practical and Speculative; Teaching

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5; Sect 2 Of the Effect of Practical Teaching; on the; Intellectual Habits12; Sect 3 Of the Effect of Practical and Speculative; Teaching on the Progress of Civilisation 17; Sect 4 Of the Learned Languages as Subjects of University Teaching31; Sect 5 Of the Necessity of combining Classical and Mathematical Studies as Subjects of University Teaching37; Sect 6 Of the Sciences as Subjects of University; Teaching41; Sect, 7 Of the Moral Effort of Practical and Speculative; Teaching 46; Chatter II-Of Direct and Ikdirect Teaching; Sect 1 Of Examinations, and of College Teaching 52; Sect 2 Of Professorial LecturesGfi; Sect 3 Of Private Tutors70; Sect 4 Of the Combination of the University with the; College System75; Sect, 1 Of the Necessity of Discipline 70; Sect 2 Of College Mannen 00; Sect 3 Of College Punishments 8?; Sect 4 Of Attendance at College Lectures 0« Sect 0 Of Attendance at College Chapel 104; Sect 0 Of Follows of

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