College High School - La Campanilla Yearbook (Upper Montclair, NJ)

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He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imita- tion. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and Judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimi- nation to decide, and when he has de- cided, firmness cmd self-control to hold to his deliberate decision. — I. S. MiU JOHN STUART MILL AND THE IDEAL OF THE EDUCATED MAN John Stuart Mill was bom in 1806, the oldest son of James Mill. The elder Mdl was himself an outstanding philosopher, political thinker, and practical statesman, but in all these categories he was to be surpassed by his son. John Stuart ' s education was directly under the care of his father, who, in John Stuart ' s words, exerted an amount of labour, care and persever- ance rarely, if ever, employed for a similar purpose, in endeavoring to give, according to his own conception, the highest order of intellectual education. At the age of twenty, he experienced a crisis in his mental history. It occurred to him to pose the question: Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you ore looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you? He reported an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered. ' No. '

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LA CAMPANILLA 1966 College High School Upper Montclair, N. J.