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“We must do something to lead boys to look at the wonderful objects by which we are surrounded, and to examine them carefully. I don't think that lectures are of much use.”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: We must do something to lead boys to look at the wonderful objects by which we are surrounded, and to examine them carefully. I don't think that lectures are of much use. They will now and then amuse, and may teach boys a little; and if the lectures are followed by examinations, they will teach more.

Boy , Thinking

“The amount of our school learning can never be very great, and the value of it is”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: The amount of our school learning can never be very great, and the value of it is allowed by all good judges to be in the discipline by which we learn, in the strengthening of the mental powers, and in the formation of character. He who learns even one thing well acquires a measure by which he may estimate himself and others: he knows what he does know, and he knows that he does not know that which he does not know. He is not deceived about himself, nor does he attempt to deceive others, nor is he likely to be deceived by others. He has attained the one sure element out of which improvement will come. All the knowledge, which we attempt to acquire and which we do really acquire, is the foundation of our character and the safe foundation on which must rest all that we shall learn afterwards and all that we shall do.

School , Learning

“By drawing an object the children will also learn a fundamental doctrine of philosophy”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: By drawing an object the children will also learn a fundamental doctrine of philosophy; but I don't recommend letting them know what the doctrine is. They will discover it some time. We do not draw objects as they are: we draw them as they seem to be. To the eye things are what they seem to be, but they are in reality, if you know what that means, something else.

Children , Learning , Drawing

“Every man who observes, must have seen what bad listeners most people are.”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: Every man who observes, must have seen what bad listeners most people are. Inability to attend carefully to what is spoken is a great defect, which leads to blunders, misrepresentation, and sometimes to quarrels.

People

“Some distinguished philosophers think that boys' eyes should be taught or trained to the examination of objects”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: Some distinguished philosophers think that boys' eyes should be taught or trained to the examination of objects: in other words, that boys should be taught to observe things and to see likeness and difference. It is done to some extent by all boys: their games teach them something, and they know a cake from an apple. But the power of careful, patient looking at a thing is not fully acquired without some pains on the part of a teacher. When a boy reads aloud, he must look carefully at the words and letters, or he will blunder. This is an instance of observation. But the philosophers mean, I believe, that we should introduce certain things called sciences into school teaching.

Boy , Thinking , Training

“Could not a boy be taught the elements of astronomy at the sole cost of using his eyes and his brain”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: Could not a boy be taught the elements of astronomy at the sole cost of using his eyes and his brain; taught slowly, certainly, and not wearied with too much at once? Some would learn more than others; but all would learn something. This is real science, real knowledge, which will make a boy wiser, and probably better too. He will learn to observe carefully, and not to be deceived, as we sometimes are, by appearances.

Boy

“Cleanthes also connects Ethic and Politic, or the study of the principles of morals and the study of the constitution of civil society.”

George Long

The Philosophy of Antoninus

Study

“I could have made the language [in the translation of Meditations] more easy and flowing, but I have preferred a ruder style as being better suited to express the character of the original.”

George Long

M. Aurelius Antoninus

“Besides the fact of the Christians rejecting all the heathen ceremonies, we must not forget that they plainly maintained that all the heathen religions were false. The Christians thus declared war against the heathen rites, and it is hardly necessary to observe that this was a declaration of hostility against the Roman government, which tolerated all the various forms of superstition that existed in the empire, and could not consistently tolerate another religion, which declared that all the rest were false and all the splendid ceremonies of the empire only a worship of devils.”

George Long

M. Aurelius Antoninus

Hostility , War , Religion , Falseness

“All education which is in its kind complete and good, is the means of forming character, and of making useful men and women.”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

Women , Men , Education

“I have heard it maintained that it is always the teacher's fault if a boy does not learn, even a stupid and idle boy; but I leave the decision of this matter to the "communis sensus," the common intelligence of mankind.”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

Stupidity , Intelligence , Boy , Decision

“A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people, and though he may wish they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices.”

George Long

M. Aurelius Antoninus

People

“Real learning… is a thing in which the learner is not a receiver only of words written or spoken: he must be a doer.”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

Learning

“When I look at the number of things which a boy must now learn, or is encouraged to learn, and when I look at the questions in the examination papers, I am quite content that I was brought up in other days; and that if I did not learn much and was taught next to nothing, I have kept to old age the sense, whatever it may be, which came with me into the world.”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

Age , World , Boy , Question

“It is an undoubted truth that, if a thing is not learned well, there is more harm done than good acquired.”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

Truth , Learning

“He [Marcus Aurelius] constantly recurs to his fundamental principle that the universe is wisely ordered, that every man is a part of it and must conform to that order which he cannot change, that whatever the Deity has done is good, that all mankind are a man's brethren, that he must love and cherish them and try to make them better, even those who would do him harm.”

George Long

The Philosophy of Antoninus

Love , Universe , Change , Parting

“A man who leads a life of tranquillity and reflection, who is not disturbed at home and meddles not with the affairs of the world, may keep his mind at ease and his thoughts in one even course. But such a man has not been tried. All his Ethical philosophy and his passive virtue might turn out to be idle words, if he were once exposed to the rude realities of human existence.”

George Long

The Philosophy of Antoninus

Life , World , Home , Reality

“Out of… average boys, if they are well brought up, come some of the most useful men to society, and sometimes great men; for the apparent dulness or slowness of some boys is only apparent: they do not apprehend quickly, because they see difficulties which sharper boys do not see, but when they emerge from the hide-bound state, they go on at a great rate, soberly and steadily. These boys become the men whom we trust… with weighty matters.”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

Men , Boy

“Prometheus… found the human race in a pitiable condition. They saw, he says, but they really saw not: they heard, but they understood not: they were like the phantoms of our dreams, and their labour was useless and unprofitable.”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I

Dreams

“This power of attention is that which perhaps more than any thing else distinguishes those who do great things from those who can do nothing well.”

George Long

An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I