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The fixed categories into which life is divided must
always hold. These things are normal — essential to
every activity. But they exist — but not as dead
dissections.
The curriculum of knowledge cannot but be divided into the sciences, the thousand and one groups of data, scientific, philosophic or whatnot — as many as there exist in Shakespeare — things that make him appear the university of all ages.
But this is not the thing. In the galvanic category of — The same things exist, but in a different condition when energized by the imagination.
The whole field of education is affected — There is no end of detail that is without significance.
Education would begin by placing in the mind of the student the nature of knowledge — in the dead state and the nature of the force which may energize it.
This would clarify his field at once — He would then see the use of data
But at present knowledge is placed before a man as if it were a stair at the top of which a DEGREE is obtained which is superlative.
