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Napoleonic Wars outcome of the wrong thinking of
ignorance--Intellectual renaissance followed--To be superseded by
the utilitarian motive--Continuation School movement--Technical
education--The Munich Schools--“The utilitarian theory profoundly
immoral”--“Service and self-direction”--But food and work not
synonymous terms--The wide reading of great statesmen--Duly
ordered education means self-sustaining minds and bodies--Moral
bankruptcy--Co-existent with utilitarian education--Moral
madness--National insanity--The better man does better
work--German efficiency--We depreciate ourselves--People’s High
Schools of Denmark--“A well of healing in the land”--“To blend
all classes into one”--A profoundly Christian movement--Widely
liberal as that of the “Angelic Doctor”--Agricultural
schools--Humanistic training for business capacity--A village
should offer happy community life--Intellectual well-being
makes for stability--An empty mind seizes on any notion--A
hungry mind, responsible for labour unrest--Continuation
Schools should not exist for technical instruction--Evening
hours still free for recreation--Eight hours a week for things
of the mind--Not for opinions--Lest leisure bore and strikes
attract--But for knowledge--Not for due exercise but for food--No
education but self-education--A great discovery has been
vouchsafed--Not a “good idea” or a “good plan”--But a natural
law in action--Grundtvig saw impassible barrier of no literary
background--But hope of Comenius “all knowledge for all men”
is taking shape--In the case of thousands of children--Even
dull and backward ones--Under the right conditions--Knowledge
meet for the people--The Parents’ Union School--A common
curriculum for _all_ children of _all_ classes--Test of a
liberal education--Only one education common to all--Nothing
can act but where it is--National work done by men brought up
on the “humanities”--Fetish of progress--The still progress
of growth--The “humanities” in English alone, bring forth
stability and efficiency--A common ground of thought has cohesive
value--Kindles light in the eyes--Peace, signalised by a new bond
of intellectual life--Danger of ignorance in action--A hopeful
sign--Demos perceives the lack.