I will tell you, gentlemen, what has been the practical error of the last twenty years, — not to load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, 25 but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of... Proceedings of the ... Convocation - Página 92por University of the State of New York - 1878Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Henry Newman - 1859 - 382 páginas
...nothing has been really effected, to teach so many things, that nothing has properly been learned at all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study was not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement ; of considering an acquaintance with the... | |
| 1885 - 326 páginas
...nothing has been really effected, to teach so many things that nothing has properly been learned at all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study was not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement ; of considering an acquaintance with the... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 450 páginas
...error of the last twenty years, — not to load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has...unmeaning profusion of subjects , of implying that a smattering'in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which... | |
| Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 488 páginas
...the last twenty years, — not to load the memory Address, of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has...that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallows, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not ; of considering an acquaintance with... | |
| Southern Educational Association - 1901 - 394 páginas
...of subjects, and are guilty, I fear, of the error which Cardinal Newman predicted fifty years ago, "of distracting and enfeebling the mind by an unmeaning...which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not." The plan of elective studies, though urged on other grounds as well, has seemed a happy solution, a... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 páginas
...last twenty years, — not to load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, 25 but to force upon him so much that he has rejected...it really is, but enlargement, which it is not; of con- 30 sidering an acquaintance with the learned names of things and persons and the possession of... | |
| National Catholic Educational Association - 1913 - 1550 páginas
...you what has been the practical error of the last twenty years. It has been the error of disturbing and enfeebling the mind by an unmeaning profusion...which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not. Wise men have lifted their voice in vain; and at length, lest their own institutions should be outshone... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 páginas
...erroc_of the last twenty years, — not to load the memory of tnestudent with a mass of undigested knowledge, -^but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all.-^ It has bg£n.the. grror ' of distracting and enfeebling the mind by an .unjneaning_profusion of subjects;... | |
| Richard Ashley Rice - 1915 - 412 páginas
...the last twenty years, — not to )ad th . load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has...rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and > S enfeebling the mind by an unmeaning profusion of sub' jects; of implying that a smattering in a... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 páginas
...error of the last twenty years, — not to load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has...study is not shallowness, which it really is, but en- [810 largement, which it is not; of considering an acquaintance with the learned names of things... | |
| |