How to Learn and what to Learn: Two Lectures Advocating the System of Examinations Established by the Society of Arts ...Society Of Arts, 1856 - 76 páginas |
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... ment of individual men in the same society , but nations , too , have entered on that course in their rivalry with one another . Who does not know that for years past the most strenuous exertions have been used to supplant the commerce ...
... ment of individual men in the same society , but nations , too , have entered on that course in their rivalry with one another . Who does not know that for years past the most strenuous exertions have been used to supplant the commerce ...
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... ment . The food of the mind is like the food of the body - it must be assimilated before it can benefit the system . The attempt to convey instruction through the vehicle of amuse- ment is so very congenial to the feelings of most of us ...
... ment . The food of the mind is like the food of the body - it must be assimilated before it can benefit the system . The attempt to convey instruction through the vehicle of amuse- ment is so very congenial to the feelings of most of us ...
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... ment of developing the faculties , and available for that pur- pose with most minds , I think highly of it , but only when pursued to a considerable extent . Getting by heart dead rules is " multiplying words without knowledge , " not ...
... ment of developing the faculties , and available for that pur- pose with most minds , I think highly of it , but only when pursued to a considerable extent . Getting by heart dead rules is " multiplying words without knowledge , " not ...
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... ment to you who are not geniuses , to you who have not talents to boast of , that learning a thing , that understanding a subject , is not so much a matter of refined intellect as of un- flinching perseverance and intensified attention ...
... ment to you who are not geniuses , to you who have not talents to boast of , that learning a thing , that understanding a subject , is not so much a matter of refined intellect as of un- flinching perseverance and intensified attention ...
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... ment , a thousand are stimulated by the hope of reward . Look at the comparative influence of these two principles on our criminal population . And this by the way suggests an over- whelming argument in favour of industrial education ...
... ment , a thousand are stimulated by the hope of reward . Look at the comparative influence of these two principles on our criminal population . And this by the way suggests an over- whelming argument in favour of industrial education ...
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Página 16 - Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque per artem Movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, Nee torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno.
Página 30 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And aery tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Página 12 - Not a unity which breaks down the limits, and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities. The distances which separated the different nations and parts of the globe are gradually vanishing before the achievements of modern invention, and we can traverse them with incredible ease; the languages of all nations are known, and their acquirements placed within the reach...
Página 15 - I possessed at this time but one book in the world: it was a treatise on Algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodginghouse. I considered it as a treasure; but it was a treasure locked up; for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted with simple equation, and I knew nothing of the matter.
Página 16 - In every case the institution of Public Service Examinations (which have long been strictly competitive) is the cause of the continued duration of the Chinese nation : it is that which preserves the other causes and gives efficacy to their operation. By it all parents throughout the country, who can compass the means, are induced to impart to their sons an intimate knowledge of the literature which contains the three doctrines above cited, together with many others conducive to a high mental cultivation....
Página 15 - ... earth, nor a friend to give me one: pen, ink, and paper, therefore, (in despite of the flippant remark of Lord Orford,') were, for the most part, as completely out of my reach, as a crown and sceptre. There was indeed a resource; but the utmost caution and secrecy were necessary in applying to it. I beat out pieces of leather as smooth as possible, and wrought my problems on them with a blunted awl: for the rest, my memory was tenacious, and I could multiply and divide by it, to a great extent.
Página 50 - Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Página 33 - has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection.
Página 12 - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realisation of the unity of mankind.
Página 33 - The great number of books and papers of amusement, which, of one kind or another, daily come in one's way, have in part occasioned, and most perfectly fall in with and humour, this idle way of reading and considering things. By this means, time, even in solitude, is happily got rid of, without the pain of attention: Neither is any part of it more put to the account of idleness, one can scarce forbear saying, is spent with less thought, than great part of that which is spent in reading.