The training of imagination- by James Rhoades
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The Following address, was written twenty-three years ago, and read to members of an essay-society consisting exclusively of public school masters.
Shortly afterwards it appeared in the columns of The Journal of Education, to whose Editor I am indebted for leave to publish it in its present form. I do so with some misgivings, at the urgent solicitation of a few friends, from whom perhaps modesty ought to have saved me.
It seems such a tiny rush-light to contribute to the vast illumination which is now en- lightening or dazzling the darkness of men's minds as to the true theory of educational aims and methods. Such as it is,
I have made no attempt to re -model or re- write it, and must therefore ask indulgence for certain colloquialisms and levels of style, which render it, I fear, more suitable to an audience of private individuals, than to that larger and more exacting public, to which it has now the audacity to appeal
This Short book is not an occult book but using imagination in studying
