 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1852 - 776 sider
...underfoot by a three hours' conflict with one hundred, two hundred unruly boys ! Finally, the mixed system has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. It is not a novelty ; it is as old as our present miserable school-system. The mixed system, as proved by... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1867 - 616 sider
...must, then, avow my own deliberate opinion, — arrived at in the teeth of the strongest possible bio* and prejudice in the opposite direction, — arrived...value, which being partial, is unsatisfactory ; in tlte case of the vast multitude, it ends in utter and irremediable ivaste (pp. 17, 18). Other passages... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 80 sider
...without having considered them well ; and I say it, because that system has been "weighed in the balances and found wanting." It is no epigram, but a simple...multitude, it ends in utter and irremediable waste. On the theory of the convertibility of force, something, I suppose, must come of the energies expended... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 78 sider
...without having considered them well; and I say it, because that system has been "weighed in the balances and found wanting." It is no epigram, but a simple...fact to say, that Classical Education neglects all J j || the powers of some minds, and some of the powers of all minds. In the case of the few it has... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 sider
...having considered them well ; and I say it, because that system has been " weighed in the balances and found wanting." It is no epigram, but a simple...multitude, it ends in utter and irremediable waste. On the theory of the convertibility of force, something, I suppose, must come of the energies expended... | |
 | George Coutie - 1875 - 296 sider
...without having considered them well ; and I say it because that system has been "weighed in the balances and found wanting." It is no epigram but a simple...multitude, it ends in utter and irremediable waste. On the theory of the convertibility of force, something, I suppose, must come of the energies expended... | |
 | 1884 - 682 sider
...incapacity if an individual student has to join the one fold or the other ? Canon Farrar has said : " It is no epigram, but a simple fact, to say that classical...being partial, is unsatisfactory ; in the case of the multitude it ends in utter and irremediable waste." Why should a judicious advocate of the ancient1... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1883 - 71 sider
...classical teacher, we have the following estimate of the present value of the system. Canon Farrar says : ' I must, then, avow my own deliberate opinion, arrived...multitude it ends in utter and irremediable waste.' " In speaking of the defects in teaching the dead languages, President Porter refers to the superiority... | |
 | 1883 - 896 sider
...classical teacher, we have the following estimate of the present value of the system. Canon Farrar says : " I must, then, avow my own deliberate opinion, arrived...the powers of all minds. In the case of the few it haa a value which, being partial, is unsatisfactory ; in the case of the vast multitude it ends in... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - 1883 - 78 sider
...is a deplorable failure. I say it, knowing that the words are strong words, but not without having 6 considered them well; and I say it because that system...multitude it ends in utter and irremediable waste.' " In speaking of the defects in teaching the dead languages, President Porter refers to the superiority... | |
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... be urged on the other side, — I must avow my distinct conviction that our present system of exclusively classical education, as a whole, and carried out as we do carry it out, is a deplorable failure. I say it, knowing that the words are strong... 
