 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...taxed with a want of truth and nature. It was complained that an education to things was not given. We are students of words : we are shut up in schools,...wind, a memory of words, 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... | |
 | Mary Hosmer Brown - 1926 - 138 pages
...course, refuse to tax them." On reform in education he complains that 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 of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1975 - 468 pages
...writes philosopher Maxine Green, "Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his Journal: 'We are shut in schools . . .for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.' To know, for Emerson, meant to feel his poetic imagination... | |
 | Paul Monroe - 1911 - 784 pages
...address of 1844 on New England Reformers. Here he complains that an education to things is 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,... | |
 | 1974 - 198 pages
...writes philosopher Maxine Green, "Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his Journal: 'We are shut in schools . . .for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.' To know, for Emerson, meant to feel his poetic imagination... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...taxed with a want of truth and nature. It was complained that an education to things was not given. We are students of words: we are shut up in schools,...wind, a memory of words, 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... | |
 | 1914 - 592 pages
...contended that our education was no longer practical; in fact, Emerson had declared, as early as 1844, that "We are students of words; we are shut up in schools...wind, a memory of words, 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... | |
 | Peter C. M. Raggatt - 1991 - 248 pages
...individual's ability to master increasingly complex knowledge and skills. (Educational Testing Service, 1989) We are students of words: we are shut up in schools,...wind, a memory of words, 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... | |
 | Allan Stanley Horlick - 1994 - 284 pages
...Woodward also was convinced apparently that "we are shut up in 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... | |
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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. 
