| Thomas Jefferson Morgan - 1887 - 286 páginas
...great pleasure and constant occupation in some branch of scientific study. BRAINS, SIR. JM WILSON. THE truth is, that what man most needs for the business...habits it impresses." The abiding, practical result of school-training is soul-power. A knowledge of the facts and principles relating to a given pursuit... | |
| University of the State of New York - 1891 - 292 páginas
...the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. * * * Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him to make shoes, it does so by the mental exercise it gives and the habits it impresses." The most precious... | |
| New York University - 1893 - 998 páginas
...the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. . . Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him to make shoes, it does so by the mental exercise it gives and the habits it impresses." The most precious... | |
| University of St. Andrews - 1894 - 464 páginas
...cramming their memory with details. And so of all other useful pursuits, mechanical included. Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that...mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses. This, then, is what a mathematician would call the higher limit of University education: its province... | |
| George William Curtis - 1894 - 520 páginas
...Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives and the habits it impresses." The highest gift of education is not the mastery of sciences, for which special schools are provided, but... | |
| George William Curtis - 1894 - 530 páginas
...the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. . . . Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives and the habits it impresses." The highest... | |
| San Francisco (Calif.). Superintendent of Public Schools - 1895 - 156 páginas
.... JH HOOSE, WT HARRIS, Committee on Pedagogics. BRAINS, SIR. The truth is, that what men most need for the business and labor of life is, not so much...habits it impresses." The abiding, practical result of school-training is soul-power. A knowledge of the facts and principles relating to a given pursuit... | |
| National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1897 - 1148 páginas
...application and is not of general interest and utility. Moreover, what a man most needs, even for the work of life, is not so much specific knowledge as mental...The abiding, practical result of school training is power. A knowledge of the facts and principles relating to a given pursuit is very important, but higher... | |
| Alfred Cotgreave - 1896 - 482 páginas
...teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him to make shoes ; it does so by the mental exercise it gives and the habits it impresses." The most precious... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1897 - 1148 páginas
...application and is not of general interest and utility. Moreover, what a man most needs, even for the work of life, is not so much specific knowledge as mental...The abiding, practical result of school training is power. A knowledge of the facts and principles relating to a given pursuit is very important, but higher... | |
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