 | John Wood (of Edinburgh.) - Church schools - 1829 - 300 pages
...of an establishment for education, accordingly, will be at the utmost pains to render his sys. tern in this respect as perfect as he can. But, when this...appearance, but comparatively of little use, in which the puppet* «trut with wondrous regularity and order, and with all that outward " pomp and circumstance,"... | |
 | Education - 1831 - 622 pages
...external arrangement, may be imitated, while the spirit that animates the whole may be entirely wanting. ' From inattention to this fundamentally important truth,...unfortunately, of the schools instituted even upon the most jusdy celebrated systems, have been allowed to become litde better than mere pieces of mechanism, pretty... | |
 | John Wood (of Edinburgh.) - Education - 1833 - 334 pages
...disclosed, which the apparatus had hitherto concealed from the eye of the spectator. From in-' attention to this fundamentally important truth, how large a...regularity and order, and with all that outward " pomp and cir cumstance," which are well calculated to catch a superficial observer, but in which all the while... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Education - 1842 - 176 pages
...external arrangement may be imitated, while the spirit that animates the whole may be entirely wanting. From inattention to this fundamentally important truth,...become little better than mere pieces of mechanism. " The copyist may introduce precisely the same number and the same size of classes, — may place the... | |
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... usefulness, or stability of the future fabric is to depend ; nor will he suffer himself to forget how often it has happened that, on the removal of the scaffolding, some deformity or flaw in the structure itself has been disclosed, which the apparatus... 