 | 1859 - 620 páginas
...could not purchase, is scarcely in any degree owed to the appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas. We now come to the third great division of human activities — a division for which no preparation... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 páginas
...could not purchase, is scarcely in any degree owed to the appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas. We now come to the third great division of human activities — a division for which no preparation... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1860 - 300 páginas
...scarcely in any degree owed to the appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge—that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are,...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas. We come now to the third great division of human activities—a division for which no preparation whatever... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1871 - 552 páginas
...could not purchase, is scarcely in any degree owed to the appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas." EICHARD J. HINTON. EXTRACTS FROM THE SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS OF LABOR OF MASSACHUSETTS,... | |
 | 1895 - 902 páginas
...could not purchase, is scarcely in any degree owed to the appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas." Some improvement there has been since Herbert Spencer wrote, but chiefly in technical teaching : and... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1873 - 572 páginas
...information which men begin to acquire as they best may after their education is said to be finished. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas." These remarks were intended to apply to the schools of England ; but there is too much in them that... | |
 | Massachusetts board of educ - 1873 - 570 páginas
...information which men begin to acquire as : hey best may after their education is said to be finished. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown...itself taught in nooks and corners ; while the ordained aiencies for teaching have been mumbling little else but dead formulas." These remarks were intended... | |
 | James Leitch - 1876 - 332 páginas
...teaching but such as goes on in our public schools, England would now be what it was in feudal times. The vital knowledge, that by which we have grown as...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas.' * Such a charge applies chiefly, of course, to our large public schools and universities ; yet it startles... | |
 | 1895 - 736 páginas
...most numerous critics of the English universities. Herbert Spencer speaks to the point when he says, " The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown...agencies for teaching have been mumbling little else than dead formulas." As a rule, in the world's work the men outside of the universities have been ahead.... | |
 | American Association of School Administrators - 1881 - 304 páginas
...their education is said to be finished. » * « The vital knowledge, that by which we have grown asa nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas. THIRD CHARGE UNDER THK THIRD C'OUNT. But thirdly, and finally, if these studies do not of themselves... | |
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The vital knowledge— that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our whole existence, is a knowledge that has got itself taught in nooks and corners; while the ordained agencies for teaching have been mumbling little... 
