Education on Physiognomical Principles
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Excerpt from Education on Physiognomical Principles: Or How to Develop the Mind and Body of Youth in Accordance With Various Types of Organisation Most of us, by a slight effort of memory, can recall to mind instances of fond parents, with hearts brimful of solicitude for their offspring, and of yearning anticipations for their future welfare, striving with every fibre on the stretch to endow them with educational advantages for the future battle of life, far in excess, perhaps, of the moderate allowance which formerly fell to their own share. We have known them in their tender earnestness pinching themselves at home, and denying themselves almost the necessaries of life, to the end that their moderate income might be adequate to the furtherance of the cherished dreams of their lives. How melancholy it is to think that much of this wistful expenditure of energy is worse than wasted and thrown away, by reason of the anomalies which, for hundreds of years, fostered by traditional inertia, have clustered about and choked the whole subject of the education of the young. Parental pinching and striving, no doubt, occasionally results in brilliant success; but this is no more the result of logical sequence, or an adaptation of the means to the end, than is the drawing of a prize in the lottery the well-reasoned consequence of the original trifling investment. The whole system of education is so essentially a groping in the dark, that for one lucky hit there are a thousand misses - nay, worse than misses, for, according to the prevailing educational system, it is hardly possible simply to fail in producing good results; and the failure is too often accompanied by deterioration, physical and mental, to an extent which it is really harrowing to contemplate. In the great majority of cases the superhuman exertions made by loving parents have the effect only of turning out upon the world decrepid, deformed, one-sided, and twisted bodies, encasing minds which may be described almost in the same words. 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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