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Education: Questions to Consider |
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1. What,
according to Milton, is the "end of learning"?
2. Why does our education need to be grounded in
experience?
3. What is wrong, according to Milton, with
education as generally practiced?
4. Milton uses the metaphor of a "hillside,"
laborious to climb at the base, but then smooth
and delightful to describe his process of
education. What does he seem to mean by this
metaphor? Does it make sense to you in light of
your own experience? How?
5. What should a well-educated person (man) be
able to do after "a complete and generous
education"?
6. Milton goes on to discuss three aspects of
his ideal education: the setting, the studies,
and the exercises. What is the importance of the
setting to a good education?
7. What, in short, is the curriculum?
8. What does Milton mean that poetry should be
made "subsequent, or indeed rather precedent" in
a well-rounded education?
9. What will be the final outcome of this
education?
10. Why is exercise important? What does Milton
suggest?
11. What about "study abroad"?
12. How would you like to have followed Milton's
ideal curriculum? To what extent does it mesh
with your experience at Whittier? |
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