The Influence of Greek Education on Modern Culture
Abstract
We, the people of this age, possess comforts and luxuries that were undreamed of by the people of the nineteenth century. We have witnessed epoch-making strides in scientific development. The telephone, wireless, the x-ray, the automobile and the air-plane are all products of our generation. Medical science has developed beyond the most fantastic hopes of last century's most eminent physicians.Our engineers' towered structures pierce the clouds. We tunnel under broad and mighty rivers and even mountains themselves are pierced by our concrete shafts. This mighty continent of our, stretching from the broad Atlantic to the capricious Pacific, a solitary traveler has spanned in a single day.We are justly proud of our progress in scientific research and development, yet we must realize that our present day civilization is not the product of one age or any one people. Historians are on firm ground when they contend we can only judge the present by the past and that only thru history may we trace the course of the movements forward - the struggles through the centuries which have given birth to this work-a-day world of today as we now know it.
Subject Area
Ancient languages|Educational administration|Education
Recommended Citation
Boylan, Howard J, "The Influence of Greek Education on Modern Culture" (1924). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097122.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097122
