| 1859 - 620 pages
...appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas. We now come to the third great division of human activities — a division for which no preparation... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pages
...appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas. We now come to the third great division of human activities — a division for which no preparation... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1860 - 328 pages
...appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas. We now come to the third great division of human activities — a division for which no preparation... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1871 - 552 pages
...appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas." EICHARD J. HINTON. EXTRACTS FROM THE SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS OF LABOR OF MASSACHUSETTS,... | |
| 1895 - 902 pages
...appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas." Some improvement there has been since Herbert Spencer wrote, but chiefly in technical teaching : and... | |
| Massachusetts. Board of Education - 1873 - 572 pages
...after their education is said to be finished. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas." These remarks were intended to apply to the schools of England ; but there is too much in them that... | |
| Massachusetts board of educ - 1873 - 570 pages
...after their education is said to be finished. The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...itself taught in nooks and corners ; while the ordained aiencies for teaching have been mumbling little else but dead formulas." These remarks were intended... | |
| James Leitch - 1876 - 332 pages
...England would now be what it was in feudal times. The vital knowledge, that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas.' * Such a charge applies chiefly, of course, to our large public schools and universities ; yet it startles... | |
| 1895 - 736 pages
...Spencer speaks to the point when he says, " The vital knowledge — that by which we have grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...agencies for teaching have been mumbling little else than dead formulas." As a rule, in the world's work the men outside of the universities have been ahead.... | |
| Herbert Spencer - 1884 - 130 pages
...appointed means of instructing our youth. The vital knowledge — that by which we haye grown as a nation to what we are, and which now underlies our...have been mumbling little else but dead formulas. We come now to the third great division of human activities — a division for which no \ i 40 EDUCATION.... | |
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