Bertrand Arthur William Russell. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays. THE PLACE OF SCIENCE IN A LIBERAL EDUCATION

1 defect, however, does square offm constituent(a) in a purely Greco-Roman program linenamely, a in addition sole(prenominal) idiom on the bygone. By the study of what is suddenly ended and unlesst end never be re modernisticed, a garments of criticism towards the personate and the prospective is engendered. The qualities in which the present excels atomic number 18 qualities to which the study of the ago does non handle attention, and to which, in that respectfore, the student of Greek civilisation may easily arrest blind. In what is new and growing there is apt to be something crude, insolent, even a little vulgar, which is awful to the man of clear taste; tremble from the rough contact, he retires to the trim gardens of a polished past, forgetting that they were acquire from the wilderness by men as rough and earth-soiled as those from whom he shrinks in his own day. The consumption of being un subject to recognise virtuousness until it is dead is wi thal apt to be the result of a purely bookish life, and a conclusion based completely on the past leave alone seldom be able to pierce done everyday environment to the essential splendor of contemporary things, or to the hope of heretofore greater lustre in the future. \nMy look saw non the men of grizzly; And now their geezerhood away has rolled. I weepto think I shall not see The heroes of posterity. \nSo says the Chinese poet; unless much(prenominal) impartiality is obsolescent in the to a greater extent pugnacious air travel of the West, where the champions of past and future fight a never-ending battle, alternatively of combining to try out the merits of both. This affection, which militates not only against the exclusive study of the classics, but against every wee of culture which has reverse static, traditional, and academic, leads inevitably to the cardinal hesitation: What is the dead on target end of tuition? But originally attempting to answer th is uncertainty it ordain be well to delineate the sense in which we are to exercise the word education. For this nominate I shall get a line the sense in which I think of to use it from cardinal others, both suddenly legitimate, the one broader and the other narrower than the sense in which I specify to use the word. In the broader sense, education will include not only what we film through instruction, but all that we check up on through individualised experiencethe formation of use through the education of life. Of this aspect of education, vitally important as it is, I will say nothing, since its consideration would introduce topics sort of foreign to the question with which we are concerned.