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... Knowledge in China . 372 Edinburgh School of Arts 374 • Institution of the Prince De Chimay , at Menars Information with Regard to Education upon the Continent of Europe , Egypt , and Algiers 380 385 Index 409 CENTRAL SOCIETY OF ...
... Knowledge in China . 372 Edinburgh School of Arts 374 • Institution of the Prince De Chimay , at Menars Information with Regard to Education upon the Continent of Europe , Egypt , and Algiers 380 385 Index 409 CENTRAL SOCIETY OF ...
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... knowledge of some particular subject that will enable them either to encrease the stock of human knowledge , or to pursue it as a profession . The studies of young persons are for the purpose of developing the faculties , of giving them ...
... knowledge of some particular subject that will enable them either to encrease the stock of human knowledge , or to pursue it as a profession . The studies of young persons are for the purpose of developing the faculties , of giving them ...
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... knowledge alone that education must be directed . Action and being are the most important points , and knowledge is only valuable as far as it con- tributes to make them perfect . It is little if a man be an encyclopædia of knowledge ...
... knowledge alone that education must be directed . Action and being are the most important points , and knowledge is only valuable as far as it con- tributes to make them perfect . It is little if a man be an encyclopædia of knowledge ...
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... knowledge which is there gained , without considering what it has put the mind into a train for acquiring . In considering the quantity of knowledge required as a qualification for a degree , it will be more necessary to consider that ...
... knowledge which is there gained , without considering what it has put the mind into a train for acquiring . In considering the quantity of knowledge required as a qualification for a degree , it will be more necessary to consider that ...
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... knowledge which he has been at so much pains to acquire bears no relation to , and affords him little assistance in , the prosecution of other studies which are to form the occupation of his life . But his case is even worse than this ...
... knowledge which he has been at so much pains to acquire bears no relation to , and affords him little assistance in , the prosecution of other studies which are to form the occupation of his life . But his case is even worse than this ...
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Page 8 - And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing with elegant maxims and copious invention.
Page 313 - Tis a lesson you should heed — Try, try again. If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again ; Then your courage should appear, For, if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear : Try, try again...
Page 66 - I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation, is incomparably the best ; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew ; it tends to set the reader himself in the track of invention, and to direct him into those paths in which the author has made his own discoveries, if he should be so happy as to have made any that are valuable.
Page 296 - On a perch, forming a triangle with a corner of the room, sat a cock and two hens ; under a stump bed immediately beneath, was a dog-kennel, in the occupation of three black terriers, whose barking, added to the noise of the children and the cackling of the fowls on the approach of a stranger, was almost deafening.
Page 74 - In doing this, he appeared to be chiefly influenced by the impressions communicated to him by his sense of smell. When a stranger approached him, he eagerly began to touch some part of his body, commonly taking hold of...
Page 312 - May just and righteous laws Uphold the public cause, And bless our isle ! Home of the brave and free, The land of liberty, We pray that still on thee Kind Heaven may smile ! 4 And not this land alone, But be Thy mercies known From- shore to shore.
Page 249 - Sounds which address the ear are lost and die In one short hour ; but that which strikes the eye Lives long upon the mind; the faithful sight Engraves the knowledge with a beam of light.
Page 295 - In the great majority of these schools there seems to be a complete want of order and system.
Page 12 - ... work by being spoken to, or by a little chastisement, to make them jump up. I was sometimes obliged to chastise them when they were almost fainting, and it hurt my feelings; then they would spring up and work pretty well for another hour; but the last two or three hours were my hardest work, for they then got so exhausted.
Page 75 - The knowledge which he has derived from the senses of touch, taste, and smell, seems fully as extensive as what any person of the most perfect faculties might be supposed to acquire, if he could by any contrivance be prevented from using his eyes and ears for the same period of time, from the moment of birth, and in the same retired situation of country.