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Excerpt from A Reasonable Plea for the Classics My subject this evening, then, is to see whether there is any reasonable basis for the inclusion of classical study in any well rounded high school curriculum. It is generally admitted that the pre-collegiate training is and should be essentially developmental in its character, that is, it Should be adapted to develop as far as possible the faculties of the child so as to enable him to meet intelligently the demands of his unfolding life. These demands will be manifold and vari ous. Many have been inclined to direct their attention to the material demands'of life, especially the means of livelihood. But the biblical precept, Man shall not live by bread alone, was never more true than it is today, when the practical ques tions of existence are depending more and more upon the solu tion of problems which pertain almost entirely to the mind. We all live in a social and political organization, and our real prob lems are not those of labor and the procuring of bread and butter, but those of social and political relations, the solutions of which will carry with them the solutions of the material ques tions. Hence the education of the masses, if it is to be the solvent of all our ills, as so many confidently claim, must have its chief regard to the things of the mind, to habits of right think ing, of right acting, in a word, of right living. If this is true, and I believe you are all as fully convinced of it as I am, how far are the classics valuable in preparing for this end? 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.

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