...and most docible" age. I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the...offices both private and public, of peace and war. And how all this may be done between twelve, and one and twenty, less time than is now bestowed in...

...teach what might be even indirectly helpful in the pursuit of trade or commerce, or in fitting men ' to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the...offices, both private and public, of peace and war.' The aim of education was rather what Milton describes as the true end of learning — ' to know God...

...on virtue in the first : I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the...offices both private and public of peace and war. It is this large design that Milton had in mind for himself during his years of preparation. If it...

...spirit of Renaissance Humanism, "I call ... a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He opposes early emphasis on such "abstract" studies as rhetoric and logic, insisting on a great variety...

...sense ; and when he goes on to define a complete and generous education as 'that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the...offices, both private and public, of peace and war,' the words might still, perhaps, bear a common interpretation ; but as soon as he comes to describing...

...with what John Milton called "a complete and generous education," namely, "that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the...offices both private and public of peace and war." This assumption of policymaking responsibility on the part of political institutions, manifested mainly...

...Let me explain. The purpose of education has been described by Milton as that of fitting a man "to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the...offices both private and public, of peace and war." Provided we do not overstress "skilfully" Aristotle would substantially agree with this, but would...

...every act and every writing of John Milton. He defined the object of education to be, "to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He declared, that "he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to...

...Tractate on Education thus: 'I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the...offices both private and public of peace and war'. Roger Ascham (1515-1568) Roger Ascham is regarded as the most important of all English humanistic educators...

...every act and every writing of John Milton. He defined the object of education to be, "to fit a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the...offices, both private and public, of peace and war." He declared that "he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to...