 | Education - 1901 - 702 pages
...provision of a machinery for winnowing out the capacities and giving them scope. Our business is to provide a ladder, reaching from the gutter to the university, along which every child shall have the chance of climbing as far as he is fit to go. For practical life is a problem under... | |
 | Education - 1900 - 1050 pages
...provision of a machinery for winnowing out the capacities and giving them scope. Our business is to provide a ladder, reaching from the gutter to the university, along which every child shall have the chance of climbing as far as he is fit to go. For practical life is a problem under... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Culture - 1881 - 372 pages
...was a member of the London School Board, I said, in the course of a speech, that our business was to provide a ladder, reaching from the gutter to the...university, along which every child in the three kingdoms should have the chance of climbing as far as he was fit to go. This phrase was so much bandied about... | |
 | 1882 - 310 pages
...Essay, on " Technical Education," contains the very noted words: "The business of Scnool Boards Is to provide a ladder reaching from the gutter to the university, along which every child may have the chance of climbing as far as he is fitted to go." Then follow essays on the " Importance... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1886 - 776 pages
...desire, on the part of nearly every colony, to realize Professor Huxley's aspiration ' for Great Britain, that the state should provide " a ladder reaching from the gutter to the university, along which e^ery child in the three kingdoms shall have the chance of climbing so far as he is fit to go." In... | |
 | 1884 - 1002 pages
...then seek the university lor advanced education. The state has, in Professor Huxley's famous phrase " a ladder reaching from the gutter to the university, along which every child has the chance of climbing as far as he is fit to go." But the university has letdown a section of... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1886 - 720 pages
...Huxley's aspiration ' for Great Britain, that the state should provide " a ladder reaching front» the gutter to the university, along which every child...the three kingdoms shall have the chance of climbing so far as he is fit to go." In most colonies, not even excepting South Africa, this appears to be more... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Automatism - 1886 - 354 pages
...was a member of the London School Board, I said, in the course of a speech, that our business was to provide a ladder, reaching from the gutter to the...university, along which every child in the three kingdoms should have the chance of climbing as far as he was fit to go. This phrase was so much bandied about... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1909 - 586 pages
...Institutionally Huxley on two occasions declared that the business of educational administration is to provide a ladder reaching from the gutter to the university, along which every child shall have the chance of climbing as far as he is fit to go. Few of us Ameri39 cans realize how much... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 804 pages
...was a member of the London School Board, I said, in the course of a speech, that our business was to provide a ladder, reaching from the gutter to the...university, along which every child in the three kingdoms should have the chance of climbing as far as he was fit to go. This phrase was so much bandied about... | |
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I said, in the course of a speech, that our business was to provide a ladder, reaching from the gutter to the university, along which every child in the three kingdoms should have the chance of climbing as far as he was fit to go. 
