 | 1887 - 512 pages
...mental food and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child...that every child should be given the wish to learn. MAEY CLAUDE'S STOEIES РОВ OELLDBEN* THESE beautiful stories, or rather poems in prose, with their... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1888 - 1260 pages
...by the heart, and I would have over every school-room these golden sentences of Sir John Lubbock : " The important thing is not so much that every / child should be taught, as that every child should wish to learn. A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten... | |
 | Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of Education - 1892 - 266 pages
...and, through this, of the range of intellect ultimately reached." And Sir John Lubbock says: — " The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught as that every child should wish to learn. A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1894 - 358 pages
...mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child...the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons,... | |
 | 1897 - 568 pages
...if, moreover, I did not always want to add the weight of his name to the wisdom of his words) : — "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught as that every child should wish to learn. A boy who leaves school knowing much but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten... | |
 | 1897 - 564 pages
...arithmetic and text-book learning which he was compelled to take. To use Sir John Lubbock's words, the main thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should wish to learn. Franklin's was the ideal education— that no child should be taught until he desired... | |
 | International Library Conference, 2d, London, Eng., 1897 - 1898 - 310 pages
...if, moreover, I did not always want to add the weight of his name to the wisdom of his words) : — " The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should wish to learn. A boy who leaves school knowing much but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten... | |
 | Association of Catholic Colleges of the United States - 1899 - 702 pages
...may be divided, and the guiding influence divided also. Sir John Lubbock says: "The important theory is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should wish to learn. A boy leaving school knowing much but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost... | |
 | Lewis George Janes - 1901 - 200 pages
...confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. . . . The important thing is not so much that every child...that every child should be given the wish to learn. . . . In short, children should be trained to observe and think, for in that way there would be opened... | |
 | Clement Dukes - 1905 - 660 pages
...hopeless state of mind, he physically fails to develop. That keen observer, Lord Avebury, wisely asked : " What does it matter if the pupil knows a little more or less ? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost... | |
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. 
