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" Let us rather, according to the Scriptures, look unto that part of the race which is before us than look back to that which is already attained. First therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are... "
American Annals of Education - Page 208
1829
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State Intervention in English Education: A Short History from the Earliest ...

James Edward Geoffrey De Montmorency - Education - 1902 - 408 pages
...Divine and Human, Book n , brings a heavy indictment against the Universities of his time. He found it strange "that they are all dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large Neither is it to be forgotten that this dedicating of foundations and dotations to professory learning...
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English Languare

Charles John Smith - English language - 1904 - 800 pages
...intellectual exertion for money. The art of the baker lies in making loaves ; his trade, in selling them. " Amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe,...and none left free to arts and sciences at large." — BACON. "A bank cannot consistently with its own interest advance to a trader the whole, or even...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

1905 - 958 pages
...laboured or prosecuted. First therefore, among so many noble foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions, and none left free to the study of arts and sciences at large. For if men judge that learning should be referred to use and...
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The Advancement of Learning, Book 2

Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 pages
...unto that part of the race which is before us, than look back to that which is already attained. 8. First therefore, amongst so many great foundations...Europe, I find strange that they are all dedicated 10 to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large. For if men judge that learning...
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English ...

Charles John Smith - English language - 1916 - 794 pages
...making loaves; his trade, in selling them. " Amongst so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, 1 find strange that they are all dedicated to professions, and none left free to arU and sciences at large." — BACOX. . "A bank cannot consistently with iu own interest advance to...
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The Manchester Grammar School, 1515-1915: A Regional Study of the ...

Alfred Alexander Mumford - Education - 1919 - 608 pages
...AND TECHNOLOGY. ' First therefore, among so many great foundations of Colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...and none left free to Arts and Sciences at large.' — Advancement of Learning, Book II. 6, 8. ' The ultimate end of education is not a perfection of...
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The Age of the Reformation

Preserved Smith - Europe - 1920 - 886 pages
...instrumentals." Bacon's further complaint that, "among so many great foundations of colleges in Europe, I find it strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...and none left free to arts and sciences at large," is an early hint of the need of the endowment of research. The degrees in liberal arts, BA and MA,...
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Science, Volume 60

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1924 - 614 pages
...proper place of research in university education. He finds (p. 95) that the great universities are "dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large." This frantic pursuit of professorial and professional learning, he says, is the folly described in...
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Science

John Michels - Science - 1924 - 840 pages
...proper place of research in university education. He finds (p. 95) that tbe great universities are "dedicated to professions, and none left free to arts and sciences at large." , This frantic pursuit of professorial and professional learning, he says, is the folly described in...
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The Schools of England: A Study in Renaissance

John Dover Wilson - Education - 1928 - 418 pages
...school of Literee Humaniores. Bacon, commenting on the colleges of Europe in his day, complained, " I find strange that they are all dedicated to professions,...and none left free to arts and sciences at large." It is interesting to hear this cry against vocational bias three centuries ago. But mark that he proceeds...
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