 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
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 sidor
...useless labor. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years than other children, what use can bo made of it? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labor of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 902 sidor
...have more knowledge at five or six years than other children, what use can be made of it? It will bo lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labor of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1867 - 158 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... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 sidor
...the Bishop left the house — " Percy Anecdotes." Miss Aikin (Mrs. Barbauld). 1743-1825. Miss Aikin was an instance of early cultivation, but in what...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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 sidor
...Endeavoring to make children prematurely wise is useless labor. Suppose they have more knowledge at live or six years than other children, what use can be...before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labor of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 sidor
...have more knowledge at five or six years than other children, what use can be made of it? It will bo ed ; the import of which I would gladly learn : with you, d labor of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed.... | |
 | 1872 - 612 sidor
...from literature to "marry a little Presbyterian parson who keeps an infant boarding-school. Miss Aikin was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate ? " Our readers will perceive from the use of the word " Presbyterian " by the big doctor, that Mr.... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 sidor
...teacher can never be repaid. Too much is 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 Preshyterian parson who kceps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, " To suckle... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 sidor
...labour. Suppose they havo more knowledge at five or i BI vein old than other children, what use can U made of it? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the wa«te of »o much time and labour of the tocher can never be repaid. Too much is ex' |«t«d from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 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... | |
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