Excerpt from Ruskin on Education: Some Needed but Neglected Elements Restated and Reviewed John Ruskin. This is true of his work in Education as much as in other departments of his varied activity, in spite of existing popular and scholastic opinion in regard to his ideas. This opinion is mainly based on ignorance of the man and his views; on prejudice - both in its common acceptation and in its literal meaning of pre-judgment, condemnation without adequate examination; on the too ready acceptance of erroneous criticism, by the mass of the people, even by the more thoughtful among them; and, as he himself has told us, on the narrowing and intolerant pursuit of less worthy aims in this mammon-loving, competitive time, whose din and dust have drowned and darkened the brightest and wisest thoughts of one of the greatest prophets and preachers of our day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.