「高校英文法」
「高校英文読解」
「高校英語」
「総合英語」
何がちゅうやねん、しかもよりによって同じ出版社から出すとか。
一本化したほうが出版社の利益にもなるんじゃないのか?
(細かい事を言えば高校英語とか、あまつさえ英文読解と書いてあっても、中身は実質、英文法ばかり)
Few peoples have been more often discussed than the English.
In the history of human society for several centuries England has been among the principal world energies:
Englishmen have often,
and in a variety of fields,
been either leaders or valuable contributors of noteworthy progress.
To arrange your books on the shelves properly is a difficult task.
If you arrange them according to their contents you are sure to get an untidy shelf.
If you arrange them according to their size and colour you get an attractive shelf, but you may lose sight of the books which you want.
In order to master the English language thoroughly and, consequently, to be able to really appreciate English literature, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of the Englishman's character.
It is hardly sufficient to know his manner of life without seeking to flnd out why he thinks and acts in the way he does.
Democracy is, historically speaking, something very recent.
It is flrst of all the belief that individual human beings are what matter most ---- more than the state, or the total of national wealth, or anything else whatever.
Then it is the belief in equality, not in the sense that everybody is alike or equalty gifted, which is obviously untrue, but in the sense that everyone should have certain basic opportunities.
Moving homeward by a new way, I presently found myself on the side of a little valley.
The apple trees were in full bloom, and, as I stood gazing, the sun burst forth gloriously.
For what I then saw, I have no words; I can but dream of the still loveliness of the bloomed valley.
To think of the future in relation to the present is essential to civilization. The commonest workman in a civilized country does this. Instead of spending all the money he earns as fast as he earns it, he will, if an intelligent man, save a large part of it as a provision against future want.
At present, in the most civilized countries, freedom of speech is taken as a matter of course and seems a perfectly simple thing. We are so accustomed to it that we look on it as a natural right. But this right has been acquired only in quite recent times, and the way to its attainment has lain through lakes of blood. It has taken centuries to persuade the most entightened peoples that liberty to publish one's opinions and to discuss all questions is a good and not a bad thing.
Questions of education are frequently discussed
as if they bore no relation to the social system in which and for which the education is carried on. This is one of the commonest reasons for the unsatisfactoriness of the answers. It is only within a particular social system that a system of education has any meanlng.
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.
The vices of others we keep before our eyes, our own behind our back: it happens therefore that a man does not pardon another's faults who has more of his own.