Excerpt from Decennial Report: 1889 1899; School of Latin, University of Texas; Outlines of a System of Classical Pedagogy Let us hope that the healthy realism of life, instead of dis carding the classical curriculum as an outlived fossil of culture history, will rather with saving conservatism maintain the continuity of the spiritual life of our race, and by demanding a fresh inter protation of the ideals and methods of undergraduate instruction will check all dangerous confusion of the technical, specialistic and scientific, with the moral, aesthetic and intellectual, education of youth, and so secure for the undergraduate, whether in preparation for the rounded responsibilities of life or for a technical specialism in philology or other historical science, the only worthy foundation for either, a classical course based upon a reasonable and enlightened philosophy of classic as well as of human culture in general. Then with the dawning century will dawn a new and truer classicism, full and warm like that of Lessing and Goethe, but freed from the composite photography of the Classical Ideal, which a hundred years of philological research has brilliantly resolved into the marvellously instructive panorama of classical culture-evolution, setting up before the eyes of our own Atlantic civilization for the aeons to come an unerring monitor and everlasting guide. 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.