Excerpt from Principles of Secondary Education, Vol. 3: A Text-Book Something precious to education was lost when the Greek idea of the ethical goodness of wisdom became obscured by neglect. It is one of the principal pur poses of this volume to bring into clearer light the moral functions of knowledge, and to show how over the bridge of ethical interest youth may be led from understanding to wisdom, and from wisdom to its cor relative goodness and volitional efficiency. 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.