CHAPTER XIV

A MASTER-THOUGHT

A motto—Nineteenth-century formula, Education is an atmosphere—Results in inanition—And _ennui_—Eighteenth-century formula, Education is a life, results in intellectual exhaustion—Education is the cultivation of faculties, leads to abnormal developments—Education has three faces—Education is a life, one of these—A creed which unifies life—The diet of great ideas—Science, _the_ teaching vouchsafed to men to-day—Evolution, the master-thought of our age—The ages have sought for a unifying principle—But personality remains—Attitude of parents and teachers towards evolution—Education is a world business—A captain idea for us, Education is the science of relations—A wide curriculum—We may not choose or reject subjects arbitrarily, 148

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