Philistine and genius / by Boris Sidis.

  • Boris Sidis
Date:
1911
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    in your daily vocation, and that you are deeply interested in the education of your countrymen and their children, who share with you the duties, rights and privileges of citizenship. I also assume that as men and women of liberal education you are not limited to the narrow interests of one particular subject, to the exclusion of all else. I assume that you are especially interested in the development of person- ality as a whole, the true aim of education. I also assume that you realize that what is requisite is not some more routine, not more desiccated, quasi-scientific methods of educational psychology, not the saw- dust of college-pseudagogics and philis- tine, normal school-training, but more light on the problems of life. What you want is not the training of philistines, but the education of genius. We need more light, more information
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