 | 1893 - 404 páginas
...men have put on record their disapproval of their own school training: Mr. Darwin, for example, says: "Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school. The school, as a means of education to me was simply a blank." Of his education at the University of... | |
 | 1869 - 520 páginas
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 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1905 - 1044 páginas
...is altogether opposed to Darwin's views. Darwin says of his education at Shrewsbury School : — " Nothing could have been worse for the development...taught, except a little ancient geography and history " (" Life and Letters," i., 31). He was, in fact, a victim of that " premature specialisation " which... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1905 - 1018 páginas
...an uncongenial task in order to pet a degree. Darwin says of his education at Shrewsbury School : " Nothing could have been worse for the development...taught, except a little ancient geography and history" ('Life and Letters,' I., 31). He was, in fact, a victim of that 'premature specialization' which is... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 páginas
...physiologists have, I believe, proved about each thought requiring quite an appreciable amount of time. Nothing could have been worse for the development...my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering'any language. Especial attention was paid to verse-making, and this I could never do well.... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1888 - 338 páginas
...esteemed of much value to him. Of Dr. Butler's school, which he attended for seven years, he says : "Nothing could have been worse for the development...history. The school as a means of education to me was simplv a blank." He used to work at chemistry in a little laboratory fitted up by his brother in the... | |
 | 1888 - 554 páginas
...your correspondent's own representation of the facts. Mr. Darwin is quoted as recording the fact that "nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, a« ii was strictly classical." "No mathfmatioe or modern luniiniii/,'« " is noted as the chief omissions... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1888 - 572 páginas
...approved schoolboy fashion. And the result, as it appeared to his mature judgment, was simply negative. " The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." (I, p. 32.) On the other hand, the extraneous chemical exercises, which the head master treated so... | |
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Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. 
