 Men dress their children's minds as they do their bodies, in the prevailing fashion. As the Orinoco Indian puts on his paint before leaving his hut, not with a view to any direct benefit, but because he would be ashamed to be seen without it, so a boy's...  Education and culture - Page 73by Alexander Johnston Chalmers Skene - 1889 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pages
...inquire what is the real motive for giving boys a classical education, we find it to be simply conformity to public opinion. Men dress their children's minds...Orinoco Indian puts on his paint before leaving his hut, not with a view to any direct benefit, but because he would be ashamed to be seen without it ;... | |
 | 1859 - 620 pages
...inquire what is the real motive for giving boys a classical education, we find it to be simply conformity to public opinion. Men dress their children's minds...Orinoco Indian puts on his paint before leaving his hut, not with a view to any direct benefit, but because he would be ashamed to be seen without it ;... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1860 - 328 pages
...inquire what is the real motive for giving boys a classical education, we find it to be simply conformity to public opinion. Men dress their children's minds...Orinoco Indian puts on his paint before leaving his hut, not with a view to any direct benefit, but because he would be ashamed to be seen without it;... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1861 - 244 pages
...inquire what is the real motive for giving boys a classical education, we find it to be simply conformity to public opinion. Men dress their children's minds...prevailing fashion. As the Orinoco Indian puts on paint before leaving his hut, not with a view to any direct benefit, but because he would be ashamed... | |
 | 1862 - 658 pages
...precedes dress, Mr. Spencer observes that a similar relation holds with the mind. " Men," he says, " dress their children's minds as they do their bodies,...prevailing fashion. As the Orinoco Indian puts on paint, not with a view to any direct benefit, but because be would be ashamed to be seen without it,... | |
 | 1862 - 542 pages
...precedes dress, Mr. Spencer observes that a similar relation holds with tho mind. " Men," he says, "dress their children's minds as they do their bodies, in the prevailing fashion. As the Orinoco Indian pnts on paint, not with a view to any direct benefit, bnt becanse he would be ashamed to be seen withont... | |
 | 1917 - 726 pages
...of School Savings Banks is the same. They differ only in operation. Spencer was right when he said "men dress their children's minds as they do their bodies, in the prevailing fashion." This statement still holds true, but modern life requires that this mental dress be severely practical.... | |
 | Robert Galloway - 1881 - 488 pages
...hold with the mind. Among mental as among bodily acquisitions, the ornamental comes before the useful. Men dress their children's minds as they do their...prevailing fashion. As the Orinoco Indian puts on paint before leaving his hut, not with a view to any direct benefit, but because he would be ashamed... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1884 - 130 pages
...what is the real motive for giving boys a classical education, ' we find it to be simply conformity to public opinion. Men dress their children's minds...Orinoco Indian puts on his paint before leaving his hut, not with a view to any direct benefit, but because he would be ashamed to be seen without it ;... | |
 | 1885 - 278 pages
...inquire what is the real motive for giving boys a classical education, we find it to be simply conformity to public opinion. Men dress their children's minds as they do their todies, in the prevailing fashion. As the Orinoco Indian puts on his paint before leaving his hut.... | |
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