 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1870 - 1232 pages
...There is truth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation -rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. The old English rule was, 'All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.' The sight of a planet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...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...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... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1870 - 590 pages
...or classical course, has thus far worked well. — Newton. Mechanical teaching. — There is trnth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and...money for the support of schools. We wish to give onr answer to the public, which was emphatically in the affirmative. — Sherborn. Education in tht... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1870 - 560 pages
...There is truth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. The old English rule was, ' All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.' The sight of a planet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...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, arid do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1871 - 624 pages
...remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms ten or fifteen years, und come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. — Ib. Educativa in the preñen!, the strength of the future. — The strength of the future' tirvii cr State... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 382 pages
...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...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... | |
| |
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. 
