The Utility of Knowledge-Making as a Means of Liberal Training
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Excerpt from The Utility of Knowledge-Making as a Means of Liberal Training: Inaugural Address Delivered at the Opening of the Fortieth Session of Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S., September 13th, 1899 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: The subject on which I wish to address a few remarks to you to-day, by way of opening the fortieth session of our College, is the utility of knowledge-making as a means of liberal training. That the main work of the highest of educational institutions should consist of original research, and that ability to make additions to knowledge should form the chief test of qualification for the highest academic distinction, may be said to have received world-wide recognition ; but the value of research work in institutions or departments of a lower grade has not been similarly recognised, and the tests for lower academic degrees and certificates do not, in general, at least formally, include a research test. I wish to bring to your notice some considerations which go to show, that the work of all educational institutions, from the highest to the lowest, should be, to a considerable extent at least, of the nature of original research, - understanding by that term, however, the effort to make additions to our own knowledge, not necessarily to the knowledge of the race. In this sense we have all been engaged more or less in original research from our earliest years; and we probably attained greater success in infancy than in youth or in later life. The young child is completely cut off from all external sources of information; and it could acquire no knowledge beyond a remembrance of confused sensations, if it did not possess the power of "putting that and that together" and finding things out for itself. By applying this power however, the child succeeds in bringing a large measure of order out of the chaos of sensations which it experiences. The method which it uses is the scientific or knowledge-making method. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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