 A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply it ; an automaton, a machine, can be made to keep a school so. It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the...  Complete Works - Page 151by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 404 pages
...on the clock, and twenty classes are to be dealt with before the day is done. Besides, how cau • he please himself with genius, and foster modest virtue?...is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow, overpower him, and get obedience without words, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 pages
...gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet, sore with suspicious ; knows as much vice as the judge of a police court,...is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow, overpower .him, and get obedience without words, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 400 pages
...time-saver, it is so energetic on slow and on bad natures, and is of so easy application, needing no sage op poet, but any tutor or schoolmaster in his first term...is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow, overpower him, and get obedience without words, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 636 pages
...should be allowed to make A its own statement in action, and its balance will appear. In thesejudgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an...is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow, overpower him, and get obedience without words, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 650 pages
...a police court, and his love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.1 A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply...is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow, overpower him, and get obedience without words, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 646 pages
...govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save laboV ; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what...is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow, overpower him, and get obedience without words, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 116 pages
...immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher. It requires time, use, insight, 29 event, all the great lessons and assistances of God...course of discipline is to be good and great. It is prej cisely analogous to the difference between the j use of corporal punishment and the methods of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 688 pages
...one by one : say rather, the whole world is . needed for the tuition of each pupil. The ad* vantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt...is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow, overpower him, and get obedience without words, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for... | |
 | Ellis Urban Graff - 1921 - 264 pages
...many years ago. In his essay on Education, Ralph Waldo Emerson sets forth this danger to education : "A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to...this course of discipline is to be good and great." Needed adjustments of education. — What adjustments of education can be made to meet the conditions... | |
 | Goodwin Watson, Gladys H. Watson - 1926 - 304 pages
...and easy-going path to the instructors, "involves at once immense claims on the time, the thought, on the life of the teacher. It requires time, use,...think of using it implies character and profoundness." — DEWEY, Democracy and Education, p. 62, The Macmillan Company. See Case No. 70. 159. Openness of... | |
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