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to cast any reflections on the past moving events of this institution nor to entice the manner in which our common schools have been conducted, but as perfection has not yet been attained in any progression and exchange of ideas may prove beneficial.
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True education is the development of the thinking
power of the human mind, its aim and look is to cultivate the powers of understanding, to strengthen and enlarge these, to show how they are to be used in mastering a subject. It seeks to train the young people how to use his brain, now to Template:Unclear and examine for himself the questions put before him, how to handle his mind as a tool and thus to realize the very purposes for which that mind was given him.
Man himself is modeled after perfection and
rightly developed - he most nearly approximates it, hen it follows if all the organs of his being are properly Template:Unclear he becomes an ideal model.
Restricted, as we are by circumstances, recognizing the
fact that all branches of learning cannot be successfully pursued, we are confronted with the problem, what course is best suited to accomplish the above result?