[lit-ideas] "On the Mat": Unexpurgated Memoirs of a Personal Trainer
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The Unexpurgated Journal of a Personal Trainer,
1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 June 16/2,
I have lived what a friend called the California Cliché: I fell in love with
my personal trainer.
>>"Human being"
>
>I don't understand what you mean. I'm not trained as a philosopher.
Geary.
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1879 J. T. ROGERS in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 53/2
"It would be absurd to assign the genius of Mozart to training."
J. Rogers, 1879.
However, when we read he wrote that for "Cassell's Technical Education", we
may excuse his rhetorics.
Cfr.
1727 _GAY_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-g.html#gay)
Fables I. ix, Seek you to train your fav'rite boy? Each caution,
ev'ry care employ.
1877 _E. R. CONDER_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-c3.html#e-r-conder)
Bas. Faith iii. 103 This protracted pupilage..is
admirably calculated to train and perfect his moral character.
This would irritate Kramer. Lawyers (if not esquires) are _trained_, never
*educated*:
1680 _BEVERIDGE_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-b2.html#beveridge)
Serm. (1729) I. 39 Such advocates as had been trained
up in the civil law.
1872 _J. F. CLARKE_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-c2.html#j-f-clarke)
Self-Culture i. (1880) 33 Animals can be trained
by man, but they cannot train themselves.
-- This idea was possibly adopted by the animistic Greeks. In his
three-volume _Paideia_ Jaeger expands on this (tr. by Highet for Harvard U P).
The
'pais' would indeed be unable to 'train' (but I fail to get the Greek for
this)
except by the aid of the 'paidagogue'.
Jaeger wants however to sublimate the thing and derogatorily puts it that
'paideia' does not mean what it strictly _expresses_. "It was no mere
child-rearing".
But this quote from 1832 indicates that by then, human beings, as opposed to
mere 'animals' were thought of being able to self-train (then why the present
vogue for 'personal trainers' -- Is Suzanne Sommers stupid or what?):
1832 _S. AUSTIN_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-a2.html#s-austin)
tr. Pückler-Muskau's Tour of German Prince III. iv.
74, I kept race-horses myself, and had a Newmarket jockey for a time in my
service... It amused me greatly to see this fellow ‘training’ himself.
cf.
1937 Daily Tel. 15 Oct. 23/3 He..trained on into a first-rate College oar.
(but it's not clear if he did that without a _coach_. Usufferables as
Oxonians are he possibly didn't). Cfr. training groom:
1816 Sporting Mag. XLVIII. 172 The defendant, a *training-groom to the Duke
of Dorset.
For Byron it's the "Dorian" (Spartan) element of _ascesis_ that is important:
1811 _BYRON_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-b4.html#byron)
Hints fr. Hor. 703 The youth who trains to ride, or run a
race, Must bear privations.
J. Krueger may or may not agree with this:
Calvin on Deut. c. 615
The feast of Tabernacles was a traynment to the people of Israell.
cfr
1879 J. T. ROGERS in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 53/2 It would be absurd to
assign the genius of Mozart to training.
Quotes for 'training college':
1829 Mod. [*Training College was in use in Ireland].
1882 _OGILVIE_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-o.html#ogilvie)
,
Normal school..a school in which teachers are instructed in the principles
of their profession and trained in the practice of it; a training-college.
1884 _S. E. DAWSON_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-d.html#s-e-dawson)
Handbk. Canada 211 A theological training-college
for priests.
1901 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 361
For years the supply of teachers exceeded the demand; now it is the other
way, or soon will be, and that is one of the factors in the training college
problem.
Quotes for 'training school':
[1814 Brit. & For. School Soc., Bye Laws, The school for children at the
Borough Road, and the school for training of schoolmasters.]
1829 Kildare Place Soc., Rep., To draw the attention of the public to these
*Training Schools.
1897 _GRENFELL_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-g2.html#grenfell)
& _HUNT_
(http://0-dictionary.oed.com.csulib.ctstateu.edu/help/bib/oed2-h4.html#hunt)
New Classical Fragm., etc. lxvii. 101 Aurelius
Asclepiades..agrees to hire from Aurelius Theon, the keeper of a
training-school, probably at Arsinoe, the services of two dancing-girls.
1905 First Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Training School for Girls 4
The Penal Code was amended..so as to authorize the commitment of delinquent
girls under the age of sixteen..to the New York State Training School for
Girls.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Jan. 7/3 If training schools are closed, then
some group homes will have to have a custodial aspect.
JLS
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