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Financial Accounting for Management
by N Ramachandran,Ram Kumar Kakani - 2005 - 498 pages
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Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to ..., Volume 2

James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 582 pages
...thoughtlefs, unprincipled and diffipated for life. I agree with Rofleau, that the aim of education fhould be, to teach us rather how to think, than -what to think ; rather to improve our minds fo as to enable us to think for ourfelves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men....
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Essays: on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to ..., Volume 6

James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...education should be, to teach us rather haw to think, than what to think; rather to improve our minds sd-as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. Not that I would discommend the acquisition of good principles, and just...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 8

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 444 pages
...make a man fickle and thoughtless, unprincipled and dissipated for life. I agree with Rosseau, that the aim of education should be, to teach us rather...think -for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other mien. Not that I would discommend the acquisition of good principles, and just...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volumes 8-9

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...make a nvan fickle and thoughtless, unprincipled and dissipated for life. I agree with Rosseau, that the aim of education should be, to teach us rather how to think, than what to think ; rather U> improve our minds so as to enable us to think for ourselves* than to load the memory with the thoughts...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 8

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...make a man fickle and thoughtless, unprincipled and dissipated for life. I agree with Rosseau, that the aim of education should be, to teach us rather how to think, than tuhat to think ; rather to improve our minds so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...night, is nearly equivalent to the addition often years to a man's life. — JJoddridge. DCCCCXXXV. 'The aim of education should be to teach us rather...think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.— Beattle. DCCCCXXXVL The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life. — Doddridge. DCCCCXXXV. The aim of education should be to teach us rather...think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. — Seattle. DCCCCXXXVI. The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is...
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Atkinson's Casket, Volume 8

American literature - 1833 - 666 pages
...both his health and property afterwards. M1LFORD BARD. • The aim of Education should be to teach as rather how to think, than what to think — rather...think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. — Beailie. THE VOICE OP THI STREAM GREAT AFRICAN WHITE ANT. Written for...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 10-11

1837 - 538 pages
...remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions iu smother. — BACON. THE aim of education should be to teach us rather...think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thought» of other men. BEATTIE. THE cup of flattery, if it does not, like that of Circe, reduce...
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Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed ...

Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.—Swift. 827. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think—rather to improve our minds so as to make us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory...
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