Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Art in Education and Life: A Plea for the More Systematic Culture of the Sense of Beauty
Now, any one who knows human nature com prehensively and generally, whether as mani fested in the individual or in the history of the race, is obliged to protest against this view and the corresponding practice. For it is just these neglected subjects and interests which are most eminently practical, and most essentially related to the whole process of education as shaping con duct and as training for the attainment of thei ideal. Practical, forsooth! As though educa tion in morals and manners were not practical as though the appreciation or active production of beautiful objects were not an essential to the truest life and best practice of a human being an essential which, alas! Our modern worship of the so-called practical, of the huge factory, of the aggregate of machinery, is rendering well-nigh impossible for so many millions of our country men.
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