Description:Excerpt from The Essentials of Liberal Education: The Inaugural Address of John Grier Hibben, President Princeton UniversityIn entering formally upon the duties of the high office of President of Princeton University I wish to present in my inaugural address the essential princi ples of our philosophy of education. We believe that the chief end of an education is the making of a man. It is the process of developing a power within which enables the human being to dominate the instincts and habits of his animal nature, assert himself as a free personality, and direct his life according to the light of reason. While he is a part of the natural world, man belongs also to the world of mind and of spirit. The particular function of education is to give him the power of freedom and to make him sensible of the duties, and worthy the privileges of a person in the midst of a universe of things.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Essentials of Liberal Education: The Inaugural Address of John Grier Hibben, President Princeton University (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Essentials of Liberal Education: The Inaugural Address of John Grier Hibben, President Princeton University (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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The Essentials of Liberal Education: The Inaugural Address of John Grier Hibben, President Princeton University (Classic Reprint)
Description: Excerpt from The Essentials of Liberal Education: The Inaugural Address of John Grier Hibben, President Princeton UniversityIn entering formally upon the duties of the high office of President of Princeton University I wish to present in my inaugural address the essential princi ples of our philosophy of education. We believe that the chief end of an education is the making of a man. It is the process of developing a power within which enables the human being to dominate the instincts and habits of his animal nature, assert himself as a free personality, and direct his life according to the light of reason. While he is a part of the natural world, man belongs also to the world of mind and of spirit. The particular function of education is to give him the power of freedom and to make him sensible of the duties, and worthy the privileges of a person in the midst of a universe of things.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Essentials of Liberal Education: The Inaugural Address of John Grier Hibben, President Princeton University (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Essentials of Liberal Education: The Inaugural Address of John Grier Hibben, President Princeton University (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.