 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 wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.  Essays, Second Series - Page 249by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Massachusetts - 1870 - 1232 pages
...things. There is truth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation -rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. The old English rule was, 'All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.' The sight of a planet... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1870 - 560 pages
...the study of things. There is truth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. The old English rule was, ' All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.' The sight of a planet... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1870 - 590 pages
...— There is trnth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. — Ib. School appropriations. — Your committee have been recently asked whether the town could not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...education to things was not given. /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 wind, a memory of words, arid do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1871 - 624 pages
...remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms ten or fifteen years, und come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. — Ib. Educativa in the preñen!, the strength of the future. — The strength of the future' tirvii... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...to things was not given. \We_ are stndents of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come...memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot fise our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do uot know an edible root in the woods,... | |
 | 1883 - 684 pages
...things was not given. Said he, " We are students of words ; we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come...our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms." And again, speaking of the exclusive devotion of the schools to Latin, Greek, and mathematics, "which... | |
 | 1885 - 696 pages
...Said he : " 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...use our hands or our legs or our eyes or our arms." And again, speaking of the exclusive devotion of schools to Latin, Greek, and pure mathematics, •'... | |
 | John Spencer Clark - 1883 - 80 pages
...things was not given. Said he : " We are students of words ; we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come...use our hands or our legs, or our eyes or our arms." And again, speaking of the exclusive devotion of the schools to Latin, Greek, and mathematics, "which,... | |
 | Franklin Harvey Head - 1883 - 32 pages
...again be says, "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...wind ; a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We can not use our hands or our legs or our eyes or our arms. We can not tell our course Ъу the stars... | |
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