 | Charles Dickens - England - 1854 - 302 pages
...I«R3. HARD TIMES. CHAPTER I. V " Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls no- I thing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing / else, and root out every thing else. You can only form the minds' of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 496 pages
...allait Verser en eux, afin de les remplir jusqu'au bord'! 1. "'Now, whlt I want is, Facts. Teach thèse boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root ont • 'every thing else. You can only form thé minds of reasoning animais upon Facts : nothing else... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 514 pages
...verser en eux, afin de les remplir jusqu'au bord'! .1. " Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach thése hoys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root oui everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animais upon Facts : nothing else will... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - Literary Criticism - 1872 - 652 pages
...himself, he tells the teacher, Mr. M'Choakumchild, — " Now, what I want is facts. Teach these bоys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out every thing else. . You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts : nothing else will... | |
 | University of Missouri - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 522 pages
...and others like him were the founders of this utilitarian system. "What I want," said Mr. Gradgrind," "is facts; teach these boys and girls nothing but...are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out every thing else." Now, I do not admit that the study of mathematics is valuable merely as a mental... | |
 | University of Missouri - Lectures and lecturing - 1879 - 522 pages
...him were the founders of this utilitarian system. "What I want," said Mr. Gradgrind," "is fac»'s; teach these boys and girls nothing but facts; facts...are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out every thing else." Now, I do not admit that the studv of mathematics is valuable merelv as a mental... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - 520 pages
...like him were the founders of this utilitarian system. "What I want," said Mr. Gradgrind," "is fctcls; teach these boys and girls nothing but facts; facts...are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out every thing else." Now, I do not admit that the study of mathematics is valuable merely as a mental... | |
 | James H. Smart - Books and reading - 1880 - 98 pages
...with facts, else we shall have the sad history of Mr. Gradgrind's family retold : " Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts....alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root up everything else." Mr. Gradgrind laid it down as a law that children were never to wonder. Indeed... | |
 | John Swett, Charles H. Allen, Josiah Royce - Readers - 1883 - 366 pages
...represents always with power, and often with marvelous skill." 24. A SCHOOL OF FACTS. 1. "Now, what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in lif e. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts: nothing else will ever be of any... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1890 - 496 pages
...les remplir jusqu'au bord '. 1. " Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach thèse boys and girls nothing bul Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root oui everything else. You can only form thé minds of reasoning animais upon Facts : nothing else will... | |
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Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. 
