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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. "
Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the ... - Page 174
by United States. Bureau of Education - 1870
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 380 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...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 504 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...
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Education, Volume 5

Education - 1885 - 696 pages
...Said he : " 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." And again, speaking of the exclusive...
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Education, Volume 3

Education - 1883 - 684 pages
...Said he, " 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." And again, speaking of the exclusive...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...given. We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ing, not by manifold science. It can be obtained by...soul by which it is desired. It reveals its own tr We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the...
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What is a Liberal Education: An Address

Franklin Harvey Head - Education, Higher - 1883 - 32 pages
...be says, "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...wind ; a memory of words, and do not know a thing. We can not use our hands or our legs or our eyes or our arms. We can not tell our course Ъу the stars...
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Complete Works, Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1883 - 282 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...
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Industrial Education a Necessary Part of Public Education: A Paper Read ...

John Spencer Clark - Manual training - 1883 - 80 pages
...Said he : " 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." And again, speaking of the exclusive...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 326 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, nnd do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not...
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Transcendentalism: And Other Addresses

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Social problems - 1886 - 116 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...
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