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Article THE HISTORICAL DEGREES; ← Page 12 of 12 Article OUR ARCHITECTURAL. CHAPTER. Page 1 of 4 →
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The Historical Degrees;
knowledge , being-taught-the whole duty of man to God , his neighbour , and himself , before he is plunged into the mysteries of triangles and other geometrical symbols—and examine the system which Ramsay proposed / go set up in its place , we can but conclude that those degrees in the rite he ' put forward which really possess merit , were not devised by himself , but gathered from other systems .
Our Architectural. Chapter.
OUR ARCHITECTURAL . CHAPTER .
Theee is an exhibition now open at the South Kensington Museum , which shows some degree of progress , but which , is . far from satisfactory . So many years having now . passed . since the foundation of the Schools of Design or Schools of Art , the Department of Art under
the Board of Education has opened an exhibition of works produced by students in schools of art , to show that the large expenditure of public money has not been misapplied . This design was well enough to a certain extent , though under the best arrangements it could not
show results adequate to the expenditure , because it is only of late years that art instruction has been even so far extended as to become a part of primary education , by the formation of drawing classes in the National and British and Foreign Schools . Whatever some persons may think , it is quite absurd to suppose that two or three years learning in a drawing class in a school of art Avill make a young
man or woman a decent designer . Such instruction may constitute the pupil a moderate copyist , but that is all . Unless the rudiments have been earlier learned , unless the pupil has had the training of the eye in drawing from childhood , he cannot profit bv advanced instruction in . design , nor can he exhibit the qualities of a designer . The present body of designers and pupils must therefore be considered as the offspring of the former limited efforts in this department ; and we have yet to Avait many years for the fruits of the greater exertions
latelv made . The object professed to be obtained on . this occasion , is an exhibition of works designed by those who have been pupils in the schools of art . The exhibition now open does , it is true , include such works , but it likewise includes to a great extent , and as some of its best productions , the works of masters of the schools , and of foreign practitioners ,. This result may be attributable to Tory good motives , but
it has unfortunately given rise to very serious charges . against the honesty of the department , in . putting forward , as the works of their own students , the works of strangers . 'Phis is treated as quackery and a sham and as an attempt to impose upon the public , and lias afforded texts enough , not only for the opponents of public education , and of instruction in art , but for the many enemies of the department
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Historical Degrees;
knowledge , being-taught-the whole duty of man to God , his neighbour , and himself , before he is plunged into the mysteries of triangles and other geometrical symbols—and examine the system which Ramsay proposed / go set up in its place , we can but conclude that those degrees in the rite he ' put forward which really possess merit , were not devised by himself , but gathered from other systems .
Our Architectural. Chapter.
OUR ARCHITECTURAL . CHAPTER .
Theee is an exhibition now open at the South Kensington Museum , which shows some degree of progress , but which , is . far from satisfactory . So many years having now . passed . since the foundation of the Schools of Design or Schools of Art , the Department of Art under
the Board of Education has opened an exhibition of works produced by students in schools of art , to show that the large expenditure of public money has not been misapplied . This design was well enough to a certain extent , though under the best arrangements it could not
show results adequate to the expenditure , because it is only of late years that art instruction has been even so far extended as to become a part of primary education , by the formation of drawing classes in the National and British and Foreign Schools . Whatever some persons may think , it is quite absurd to suppose that two or three years learning in a drawing class in a school of art Avill make a young
man or woman a decent designer . Such instruction may constitute the pupil a moderate copyist , but that is all . Unless the rudiments have been earlier learned , unless the pupil has had the training of the eye in drawing from childhood , he cannot profit bv advanced instruction in . design , nor can he exhibit the qualities of a designer . The present body of designers and pupils must therefore be considered as the offspring of the former limited efforts in this department ; and we have yet to Avait many years for the fruits of the greater exertions
latelv made . The object professed to be obtained on . this occasion , is an exhibition of works designed by those who have been pupils in the schools of art . The exhibition now open does , it is true , include such works , but it likewise includes to a great extent , and as some of its best productions , the works of masters of the schools , and of foreign practitioners ,. This result may be attributable to Tory good motives , but
it has unfortunately given rise to very serious charges . against the honesty of the department , in . putting forward , as the works of their own students , the works of strangers . 'Phis is treated as quackery and a sham and as an attempt to impose upon the public , and lias afforded texts enough , not only for the opponents of public education , and of instruction in art , but for the many enemies of the department