Excerpt from Confessions of a Schoolmaster and Other Essays Truth, yea, and for itself. Seek it not to gain the praise of men or the honor of this world, nor yet for the deceitful pleasures of riches; for the more these things are loved the farther do they cause men who seek them to depart from the light of truth and knowledge. Al though this advice was given more than a thousand years ago, it still forms a good modern educational programme; for it emphasizes those great fundamental principles that should guide us in the pursuit of all knowledge. It was this thought that I had in mind in preparing the essay on Confessions of a Schoolmaster. In the Commencement Address at Wenonah, my plea to scholars is that they shall consecrate their talents and learning to an unselfish service for mankind. In the paper on Robert Ellis Thompson: An Appreciation, the influence of a great schoolmaster is described. With the thought of Alcuin in his mind, he has given the High School a distinctive character for culture and scholarship. The essay on Ranke and His Pupils shows how this group of German historians carried the same ideals into the realm of productive authorship, and how their methods in searching for truth became the. 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.