Arnold of Rugby: His School Life and Contributions to EducationJoseph John Findlay |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page 15
... improvement . On this , of course , all distinction in Oxford must depend : but much more than distinction depends on it ; for the difference between a useful education , and one which does not affect the future life , rests mainly on ...
... improvement . On this , of course , all distinction in Oxford must depend : but much more than distinction depends on it ; for the difference between a useful education , and one which does not affect the future life , rests mainly on ...
Page 17
... this generated no conceit : the example before his eyes daily reminded him that it was only as a means of usefulness , as an improvement of talents F. A. 2 for his own good and that of others that knowledge Life at Laleham 17.
... this generated no conceit : the example before his eyes daily reminded him that it was only as a means of usefulness , as an improvement of talents F. A. 2 for his own good and that of others that knowledge Life at Laleham 17.
Page 45
... improvement . It was at this juncture that Dr Arnold was elected Head- master of a school which , whilst it presented a fair average specimen of the public schools at that time , yet by its constitu- tion imposed fewer shackles on its ...
... improvement . It was at this juncture that Dr Arnold was elected Head- master of a school which , whilst it presented a fair average specimen of the public schools at that time , yet by its constitu- tion imposed fewer shackles on its ...
Page 50
... , and in which it would not unfre- quently happen that he himself was opposed and outvoted . He was anxious that they like himself should have time to read for their own improvement , and he was also glad 50 School Life at Rugby .
... , and in which it would not unfre- quently happen that he himself was opposed and outvoted . He was anxious that they like himself should have time to read for their own improvement , and he was also glad 50 School Life at Rugby .
Page 51
His School Life and Contributions to Education Joseph John Findlay. for their own improvement , and he was also glad to encourage any occasional help that they might render to the neighbouring clergy . But from the first he maintained ...
His School Life and Contributions to Education Joseph John Findlay. for their own improvement , and he was also glad to encourage any occasional help that they might render to the neighbouring clergy . But from the first he maintained ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
amongst Arnold believe better BISHOP OF HEREFORD boys called chapel character childhood Christ Christian Church Clifton College Register corporal punishment den of thieves Dr Arnold duty earnest encourage English evil exercise exist expression fagging faults fear feeling felt give God's Gospel Greek Head-master impression influence instruction intellectual interest Jehoiakim Jehonadab knowledge Laleham language Latin less lessons living look manhood manly master means mind moral nature never notion obedience opinion Oxford parents peculiar practice preached principles profanation public school punishment pupils regard relation religious respect Rugby RUGBY CHAPEL Rugby School scholars school discipline schoolmaster Scripture seems sense Serm sermons Sixth Form society speak spirit suppose sure sympathy taught teacher teaching temple things Thomas Arnold thought Thucydides tion translation true truth University volume whilst whole Winchester wisdom wish words write young
Popular passages
Page 88 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death, thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Page 115 - Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
Page 119 - Be it known unto you. therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Page 148 - For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding...
Page 154 - Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners...
Page 166 - And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; 16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
Page 52 - And few scenes can be recorded more characteristic of him than on one of these occasions, when, in consequence of a disturbance, he had been obliged to send away several boys, and when, in the midst of the general spirit of discontent which this excited, he stood in his place before the assembled school, and said, " It is not necessary that this should be a school of three hundred, or one hundred, or of fifty boys ; but it is necessary that it should be a school of Christian gentlemen.
Page 160 - Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer ; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Page 73 - They will remember the glance, with which he looked round in the few moments of silence before the lesson began, and which seemed to speak his sense of his own position and of theirs also, as the heads of a great school ; the attitude in which he stood, turning over the pages of Facciolati's Lexicon, or Pole's Synopsis, with his eye fixed upon the boy who was pausing to give an answer ; the well known changes of his voice and manner, so faithfully representing the feeling within ; the pleased look...
Page 60 - will never be what it might be, and what it ought to be." The remonstrances which he encountered, both on public and private grounds, were vehement and numerous. But on these terms alone had he taken his office : and he solemnly and repeatedly declared, that on no other terms could he hold it, or justify the existence of the public school system in a Christian country.