 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
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 850 sidor
...character. She was PERSONAL Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 sidor
...children prematurely wise is useless labor. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It...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.... | |
 | London School of Economics and Political Science - 1923 - 236 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 will be lost before it is 187 wanted. Too much is expected from precocity and too little performed." I must beg your pardon for... | |
 | Charles Frederick Farrar - 1926 - 420 sidor
...Suffolk. Speaking in depreciation of making children prematurely wise, Johnson growled, " 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.' "... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 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 l was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marrying a little Preshyterian... | |
 | Harriet Kramer Linkin, Stephen C. Behrendt - 1999 - 312 sidor
...subject is her children's books, has been to quote Samuel Johnson's ridicule of them: 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... | |
 | 1829 - 598 sidor
...wise,' says Johnson, ' is useless labor. Suppose they have more knowledge, at five or six years old, than other children ; what use can be made of it ?...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.'... | |
 | 1924 - 750 sidor
...has more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It wjll be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. One precocious young lady of his acquaintance ended by marrying a little Presbyterian parson who kept... | |
 | 1905 - 314 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 will be lost before it is wanted. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed." He observed : " All knowledge is of... | |
 | 70 sidor
...generalization that "endeavoring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour"; "Miss [Aikin] was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marrying a Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding school, so that all her employment now is, 'To suckle... | |
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