The Catholic University Bulletin (V. 7)

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124

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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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: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN COLLEGIATE TRAINING. Before setting out to argue the claims of any science, or group of sciences, to a place in our collegiate curricula, it is well to make clear the concept of collegiate education that serves as a major premise for the discussion. The premise from which this paper starts is, that the aim of the college?in so far as it is intellectual?is to give the student a symmetrical mental development, to train all the faculties of his mind, and to beget in him the power of consciously directing them. The thesis advocated is, that some study of the Social Sciences is necessary for the attainment of this symmetrical development. The function of the college, as here understood, is to do for the mind what a well appointed and well directed gymnasium aims to do for the body,?an analogy recognized in the German system of education by the application of the name "gymnasium " to those schools of secondary grade that aim at a liberal training. In the physical gymnasium it is recognized that certain forms of exercise are specially adapted to the development of particular sets of muscles ; and that the symmetrical development of the whole muscular system,?the development that gives to the body strength, poise, and agility and grace of movement,?is secured only by a suitable combination of varied forms of exercise. This conception of the function of a college will be readily granted by the advocates of a fixed curriculum that aims to give the student what is termed a "liberal" education,?or perhaps it would be better to say the "basis" for a liberal education. It cannot be too much or too often emphasized that education is the matter of a life-time, and that the most the college or the university, or both together, can do is to lay deep and strong...

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