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. Education - Page 5171883Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 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, and colleges, arid recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory... | |
| Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1870 - 1232 pages
...things. 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...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 - 1867 - 274 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, and colleges, arid recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory... | |
| Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1870 - 560 pages
...practical knowledge, and add to the study of words, the study of things. There is truth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation-rooms...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
...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,...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. Office of Education - Education - 1870 - 590 pages
...— There is trnth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. — Ib. School appropriations. — Your committee have been recently asked whether the town could 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 238 pages
...truth and nature. [ It was complained that an education to things was not given. \We_ are stndents of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges,...memory of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot fise our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do uot know an edible root in the woods,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 382 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, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 386 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, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words,... | |
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