...intensely practical, utilitarian stamp as himself, he tells the teacher, Mr. M'Choakumchild, — " Now, what I want Is facts. Teach these boys and girls...are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out every thing else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts : nothing else will ever...

..."~1^ "yOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys i^^k and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone I ^« are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out...else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up...

...11, BOUVEEIE STREET. 1854 HARD TIMES. BOOK THE FIRST. —SOWING-. CHAPTER I. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL. " Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls...else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring...

...well-known novel of Dickens, "Hard Times," from which Prof. Oppenheim quotes the following passage : — " Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else." As Prof. Oppenheim laments, one sees women and girls (and he might have added men also) for whom devotion,...

...education.' We seem to have accepted in deadly earnest Dickens' ironical exhortation in " Hard Times " : " Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts...life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else "; and as the result of this we see boys and girls, and men and women, for whom devotion, inspiration,...

...(Livre II, chap. i). (a) « Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach thése !,., v -, and girls nothing buts Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everylhing else... This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle...

...economists. Consider the opening words of the novel:— " Now, what I want," says Mr. Gradgrind, " is " Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but " Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant 1 Maine, Popular Government, p. 153. Xll Lecture " nothing else, and root out everything else. You...

...economists. Consider the opening words of the novel : — " Now, what I want," says Mr. Gradgrind, " is " Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but " Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant 1 Maine, Popular Government, p. 153. Lecture " nothing else, and root out everything else. You " can...

...facts. "Now, what I want is facts!" he used to say to Mr. M'Choakumchild, the schoolmaster. "Teach boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Nothing else is of any service to anybody. Stick to facts, sir." He had several children whom he had...

...Science, Central State Normal School, Lock Haven, upon NATURE STUDY IN ITS RELATION TO NATURAL SCIENCE. " Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls...else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts. Nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle upon which I bring...