 We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitationrooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.  The Apprenticeship Bulletin - Page 51907Full view - About this book
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen jears, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. <I We can not use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in... | |
 | Helen Parkhurst - 1922 - 318 pages
...students of words," he wrote, "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." In a recent interview Thomas Edison, whose only formal education consisted of "some instruction from... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our... | |
 | Mary Hosmer Brown - 1926 - 138 pages
...we are using antiquated methods. "We are students of words; we are shut up in schools and colleges and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory...words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our minds or our eyes. Some thousands are graduated at our colleges every year and the persons who can... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1870 - 588 pages
...are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms ten or fifteen years, and come out at la«t with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. — Ib. Education in the present, the strength of the future. — Tho strength of the future town or... | |
 | Paul Monroe - 1911 - 784 pages
...We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms (VoK III, p. 257). These strictures of the Concord philosopher were... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitationrooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our... | |
 | 1914 - 592 pages
...that "We are students of words; we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands or our legs, or our eyes or our arms." In response to a general agitation for a practical educational... | |
 | Peter C. M. Raggatt - 1991 - 248 pages
...We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of...and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our... | |
 | Allan Stanley Horlick - 1994 - 284 pages
...schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years and come out at last with a belly full of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms."46 The importance of manual training for Woodward was that it ensured... | |
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