Excerpt from Meredith College Quarterly Bulletin, 1930-1933Ruskin, the great prose-poet, artist, and art critic, somewhere says: The greatest thing a human soul can do in this world is to see something and to tell what it sees in a plain way. Hundreds can talk, he continues, for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, - all in one. Now Ruskin excelled in the realms of poetry, prophecy, and religion, and all for the reason that he could see clearly. And it is quite probable, as Professor Bliss Perry says, that Ruskin's most valuable contribution to his generation was to help people to use their eyes.Here I think is suggested to us the primal purpose of education, -to help people to use their eyes.To be able to talk is indeed important enough, and difficult enough, unless one is referring to mere talk. In this, some stu dents are naturally quite proficient, and they often become more so as the college years ago by. More than one father, upon his son's return home after four years in college, has found the best expression of his feelings in the words of Aaron: I put in the gold and out walked this calf. To make a noise is not a hard thing to do, - any calf can do that; but to talk well is not easy, but quite worth while. And to develop in students the power to express themselves in speech should certainly be one of the ends of education.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.