At 09:53 AM 9/29/02 -0600 Marc A. Schindler favored us with: >That was his lesser known role, but the one that brought in the bread and butter -- >an economist who specialized in education. But I'll bet not 1 Canadian in 10 >remembers him for that. They just remember him for his famous stories like the time >he withdrew all his money out of the bank. He was a kind of Will Rogers type.
I just had the most phenomenal coincidence occur. I was trying to find the Institute manual on that part of the Old Testament that has Isaiah which we are starting the study of in Gospel Doctrine class. Digging though some old crates I accidentally knocked one of the over onto the floor. It was filled with old files which I put back in the crate, but then I say a couple of papers still on the floor. One of them was the exact Stephen Butler Leacock piece I was searching the Internet for last night. I'm sure I haven't seen this file in over 20 years, and I had forgotten I have it. Here is the part I was looking for: "What I find wrong is the stark division now existing between the years of formal education and entry into the work of life. Education has become to a great extent a mere acquirement of a legal qualification to enter a closed profession, in place of being a process undertaken for its own sake. All that is best in education can only be acquired by spontaneous interest; thus gained it lasts and goes on. Education merely imposed as a compulsory prerequisite to something else finishes and withers when its task is done. Real education should mean a wonderful beginning, a marvellous initiation, a thorough 'smattering,' and life will carry it on. "A part of the present difficulty is that our school and college curriculum in its one thousand years of development from the church schools of the Middle Ages has taken on a mass of subject matter beyond the range of any one mind. We have not yet learned to condense to useful essentials the things beyond study the study in detail. The best part of any subject is the general view, the thorough smattering just mentioned, that carries to the individual the results for which others have given the work of their lives. The outline of the world's history can occupy half an hour, or half a session, or half a century. "We have further encumbered the curriculum with the attempt to teach things that cannot be imparted by classroom work---too practical for anything but actual practice, or too vague and general for anything but general reflection." (From the Preface to EDUCATION EATING UP LIFE by Stephen Butler Leacock) He signs his name Stephen Leacock Professor Emeritus McGill University, B.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Chicago), Litt.D. (Brown, Dartmouth and Toronto), LL.D. (Queen's and McGill), D.C.L. (Bishop's) The man had spent his life in school only to discover that many of the most important lessons in life have to be learned outside of academia. John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************************* For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. (Ephesians 6:12) ********************************************************************* "All my opinions are tentative pending further data." --JWR ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
