Thucydides: Book II (Classic Reprint)

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To-day fairly other views of the end of learning are making way; according to which views, if I bear in mind them, education ought to teach one kind of thing, and one only, that may be to say, that kind of thing to be able to help the learner to make money. The supporters of these views hold that literature may be advantageously neglected, and something called useful knowledge substituted for it. It is unlikely that any one who shares the new views on education will read these pages, because Greek is not placed by the apostles of this New Learning in the category of useful knowledge,’ the omission seeming to involve the conclusion that the Renaissance, the former revival of learning, and especially of Greek learning, used to be a great mistake, a delusion of foolish men who did not bear in mind what used to be useful know ledge.’ But if any who use this book are drifting about in uncertainty, and asking themselves, To what end 2 they’ll do well to ponder those words of Milton.

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