Excerpt from Seven Factors of Education
"Produce! Produce!" exclaims Teufelsdrockh in Savior resartus, "Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it, in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then."
Many years ago I was profoundly impressed in reading for the first time Ruskin's Seven lamps of architecture, as setting forth the universal illuminants of architecture, the architecture of all time and of every people.
Am I too venturesome to enter an arena so warmly contested as that of modern teaching and endeavor to determine whether there are also universal illuminants which lighten the way to the perfect training of the mind? Is there in education, as in architecture, an absolute code derived from the intellectual experience of generations of thinkers, a code for every subject, for all time, and for every people? Or is the general revolt from authority, which is the most conspicuous tendency of our times, to leave education also without the sanction of experience?
I was drawn to these questions: first, by consciousness of somewhat cloudy thought in the matter, consoled only by signs of similar cloudiness in others; second, by rising indignation against the apparent infection of education in this country with certain material and experimental tendencies, as if from the contamination of a triumphantly successful commercial age.
My inquiry has not resulted in the discovery of new laws.
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