 I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,...  The Table Talk of John Selden - Sida 66efter John Selden - 1818 - 180 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 sidor
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It...waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can nevfer be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss was an instance... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1826 - 524 sidor
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ?...the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher is never to be repaid."* The remainder of this passage contains such an illiberal attack upon a celebrated... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1827 - 264 sidor
...usaless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what rise can be made of it ? it will be lost before it is wanted,...the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher is never to be repaid.'* The remainder of this passage contains such an illiberal attack upon a celebrated... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 sidor
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old Mc go much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 sidor
...children prenaturely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It...a little presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, • To suckle tools, and chronicle small beer.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 sidor
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It...instance of early cultivation, but in what did it teTminate? In marrying a little presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1834 - 272 sidor
...they have more knowledge at five or six years oid than other children, what use can be made of it 1 It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher is never to be repaid.'* The remainder of this passage contains such an illiberal attack upon a celebrated... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 sidor
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ?...a little presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.' She... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 sidor
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five, or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It...expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss i was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marrying a little presbyterian... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 588 sidor
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ?...expected from precocity, and too little performed." It is difficult to say, whether the evil, here referred to, be more inveterate, or prevalent. A wordy,... | |
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