| John Swett - 1876 - 272 Seiten
...struction. How capitally he hits off what is termed "practical teaching:" " ' Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts...speaker was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, and his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1876 - 620 Seiten
...the teachers in this vein — "Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facU. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the mind of rea.-oning animals upon facts; nothing else will ever be of any service... | |
| Sir Wyke Bayliss - 1879 - 214 Seiten
...yet there may be false conceptions about Truth, and ugly ideas about Beauty. " What I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals on Facts. This is the principle on which I bring up... | |
| University of Missouri - 1879 - 522 Seiten
...like him were the founders of this utilitarian system. "What I want," said Mr. Gradgrind," "is facts; teach these boys and girls nothing but facts; facts...are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out every thing else." Now, I do not admit that the study of mathematics is valuable merely as a mental... | |
| University of Missouri - 1879 - 520 Seiten
...like him were the founders of this utilitarian system. "What I want," said Mr. Gradgrind," "is fctcls; teach these boys and girls nothing but facts; facts...are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out every thing else." Now, I do not admit that the study of mathematics is valuable merely as a mental... | |
| 1928 - 684 Seiten
...schoolmaster, admonished by the school director to secure a recitation of facts: "Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts...life. Plant nothing else and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts ; nothing else will ever be of service... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1880 - 868 Seiten
...HARD TIMES. BOOK THE FIRST. SOWING. CHAPTER I. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL. " Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service... | |
| James H. Smart - 1880 - 98 Seiten
...facts, else we shall have the sad history of Mr. Gradgrind's family retold : " Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts...alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root up everything else." Mr. Gradgrind laid it down as a law that children were never to wonder. Indeed... | |
| 1918 - 746 Seiten
...conceives such a course of training likely to work out in actual practice. "Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts ; nothing else will ever be of any service... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1883 - 842 Seiten
...HARD TIMES. BOOK THE FIRST.— SOWING. CHAPTER I. The One Thing Ntedful. |OW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning ani ruals upon facts : nothing else will ever be of any service... | |
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