Bill's school and mine; . e them). Here you have an example of the worst thatis possible in idealism. Whenever people dont look at naturethey always think they can improve her. From this dead barbarism let us turn to a living barbarism,to work done by hands as rude and by minds as uninformed,let us turn to a picture of the Serpent Beguiling Eve, fromthe Church of St. Ambrogio of Milan. Its date is notknown, but it is barbarous enough for any date: but rudeand ludicrous as the sketch is, it does certainly have the ele-ments of life in it. The workmans whole aim was straightat the facts, and not
Bill's school and mine; . e them). Here you have an example of the worst thatis possible in idealism. Whenever people dont look at naturethey always think they can improve her. From this dead barbarism let us turn to a living barbarism,to work done by hands as rude and by minds as uninformed,let us turn to a picture of the Serpent Beguiling Eve, fromthe Church of St. Ambrogio of Milan. Its date is notknown, but it is barbarous enough for any date: but rudeand ludicrous as the sketch is, it does certainly have the ele-ments of life in it. The workmans whole aim was straightat the facts, and not merely at the facts but at the very heartof the facts, for he did indeed show Eves state of mind, thatshe is pleased at being flattered and yet in an uncomfortable EDUCATION AFTER THE WAR. 99 mood of hesitation; some look of listening, of complacencyand embarrassment he did verily get into the picture; notethe eyes slightly askance, the lips compressed and the righthand nervously grasping the left arm. Nothing was impos-. The Serpent Beguiling Eve. The beginnings of art in Italy. sible to the people who began their art thus. The world wasopen to them and all that is in it; whereas nothing was pos-sible to the man who did the symmetrical angel, the worldwas keyless to him. He built a cell for himself in which hewas barred up forever. Our conventionalized courses in science donot, however, take strong enough hold on youngmen to shut them up, as in a cell, forever!No, they certainly do not! But these courses dotend to separate ideas from sense material:whereas the very essence of science study shouldbe to develop ideas in connection with sense ma-terial. Let no one imagine that unfriendliness to- 100 bills school and mine. wards conventional science teaching means anylack of appreciation of the necessity of the kindof precise thinking which is peculiar to themathematical sciences, although much that hasbeen said on this subject by mathematicians seemsto be only a near-vision of t
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