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Abel J. Jones' collection of stories in which he seeks to aggregate many of his Spirituality, Nobel Laureate thoughts consolidated in a single form and provide them at an inexpensive price so that everyone can read them. Some stories are fascinating and fantastic, while others sneak up on you and draw you in. Rudolf Eucken was an eminent German philosopher and Nobel Prize recipient in Literature (1908). Some stories are violent and strange, while others creep up on you and slowly suck you in. Readers are compelled to keep reading because the title character is so self-indulgent. With a redesigned cover and professionally typeset material, this version of "Rudolph Eucken" is both current and legible. "The Meaning and Value of Life" (1908), one of his major writings, addresses significant issues of the purpose and significance of human existence. Eucken explores into the realms of ethics, spirituality, and the human search for meaning in this work. According to Eucken, the ultimate meaning of life is found not in consumerism or superficial interests, but in the development of one's spiritual and moral qualities.
Abel John Jones (1878-1949) was a Welsh writer. He studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1898 to 1901, and was awarded a BSc. He taught science and mathematics and was Senior Master at Narberth County Intermediate School, Pembrokeshire, from 1904 to 1905 under the headmastership of John Morgan MA. From 1905 to 1906 he studied at the German University of Jena under the philosopher Rudolf Christoph Eucken and was awarded a PhD. From 1906 he was Scholar of Clare College, Cambridge reading for the Moral Sciences Tripos (BA 1908, MA 1912). After leaving Cambridge, he taught in elementary and secondary schools and lectured in Philosophy at Clare College before his appointment as an assistant lecturer in the Education Department of the University College, Cardiff. He became the youngest person to be appointed one of His Majesty's Inspector of Schools in Wales (1910-1938). During the years 1914-1918, he was Secretary for War Savings in Glamorgan for which he was later awarded an OBE. He had at least nine books published, the first of which concerned Rudolf Eucken: A Philosophy of Life (1912).
The book explains why and how schools and colleges in Wales have been inspected from 1839 to the present. It offers insights into the history of education and education policy making and describes how the ethos of the inspectorate changed over time. In the Victorian period, many inspectors condemned the use of Welsh in the school curriculum but later became active promoters of the teaching of the Welsh language, Welsh history and culture. It analyses the value and impact of inspection in the context of accountability and school improvement. This book critiques the debate about the future of inspection in Wales.
In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of nineteenth-century working-class life. Besides affording rare insights into the developing child's world of dreams, hopes and fears, they reflect a crucial period in the evolution of a family tradition; a time when, to counteract the brutalizing pressures of urbanization and industrialization, ordinary people turned to each other for support. Children have seldom had a voice in history: these writers and their experiences take their place as part of the essential fabric of our past.
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