Complete Works Author:Leo Tolstoy, Nathan Haskell Dole Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROGRESS AND THE DEFINITION OF EDUCATION A Reply to Mr. Markov, Russian Messenger, 1862, No. 5 The chief points of Mr. Mdrkov's disagreement with my view o... more »f education are formulated in the following manner: " (1) We recognize the right of one generation to interfere in the education of another. (2) We recognize the right of the higher classes to interfere in the popular education. (3) We do not agree with the Ydsnaya Polydna definition of education. (4) We think that the schools cannot be exempted from the historical conditions, and that they ought not to be. (5) We think that the modern schools more nearly correspond to the modern needs than those of the Middle Ages. (6) We consider our education not injurious, but useful. (7) We think that the full liberty of education, as Count Tolsttfy understands it, is injurious and impossible. (8) Finally, we think that the methods of the school at Yasnaya Polydna contradict the convictions of the editor of Ydsnaya Polydna." (Russian Messenger, 1862, No. 5, p. 186.) Before answering each of these points, we shall endeavour to find the fundamental cause of disagreement in our view and that held by Mr. Markov, which latter has calledforth an expression of universal sympathy from the pedagogical and from the lay public. This cause lies in the incompleteness of our view as expressed (and so we shall try and make it more complete now), and, on the side of Mr. Markov and the public in general, in the incorrect and limited comprehension of our propositions, which we shall try to make clearer. It is evident that our disagreement is due to a different comprehension and, consequently, definition of education itself. Mr. Markov says: " We do not agree with the Ydsnaya Polydna definition of education." But Mr. Markov does not overthrow o...« less