Uppingham Tercentenary June 26 1884

Author : Uppingham School
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333155100
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Uppingham Tercentenary written by Uppingham School and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Uppingham Tercentenary: June 26, 1884 Whoever those others may be, and as we have to compress all our remarks into the space of one hour under the penalty of getting no luncheon, I think that what we have to say must be made as Short as possible. The first thing which strikes me, in looking at an assemblage of boys such as I now see, is this, - what a wonderful change there is in schools since I was a boy! It is more than fifty years ago since I went to school, and things certainly were very different then from what they are now; and though I do not think it is desirable to atter the present by throwing dirt upon the past, still, I believe, everybody will say that there has been a marvellous change for the better from those days. For example, you boys have your ordinary comforts attended to in a way, which I venture to say, they were not attended to in any school in England at the time when I was a boy. Boys are now treated as if they were boys, and not as if they were little beasts (laughter). They have their comfortable rooms to themselves, and it is not considered sufficient to turn a boy loose into any sort of a dormitory and leave him to his own resources. Then, besides that you are better taught than we used to be in those days. We have now generally arrived at the persuasion that boys have got heads and hearts; and that you can get at a boy through his head and through his heart, better than you can through some other parts of his person (laughter, and hear, hear). This is a great discovery (renewed laughter). The greatest discoveries are the Simplest; and things go on from year to year in the same course, until some great man makes a discovery which revolutionises the world. We had been boiling water from the time of Noah, and before that, down to the eighteenth century, when James Watt found out what was the result of boiling water (hear, hear, and laughter); and the power of steam has made that great revolution in the world which we have lived to witness. I say honestly and sincerely that it is a great discovery that boys can be reached through their feelings not their bodily feelings - but through the feelings of their hearts and through their brains, through the higher part of their nature. 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."