Excerpt from Schoolboys and School Work In our own and many other tongues, brought within easy reach of all, new views and new methods compelled by the discoveries of archaeologists, fresh interest in vivifying history and geography, in opening the minds of all, even the youngest, to the processes and phenomena of nature, eagerness to bring all that is stimulating in music, singing, drawing and manual training into the course of education, desire to make every subject a reality in the training of young life, the many interests which are awakened by the communication of ideas and by contact with all kinds of systems both at home and abroad. We can well appreciate some thing of the bewilderment, as it is to be hoped we may imitate something of the enthusiasm, of the Renaissance of the sixteenth century and we are reminded of Rabelais' famous description of Gar gantua's ideal of education for his son, including the classic tongues, geometry, arithmetic, music, astronomy, all the physical sciences, medicine, a study of the Sacred Books, Hebrew, Chaldaic, Arabic; he will have his son, he says, ignorant of nothing that exists There was then evidently, as there is now, plenty of free play for the faddist there is now, as there was then, the acrid temper we trust not the same material justification for it Which prompted Erasmus to declare that he carried away from a French College nothing but disease.
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