Let Youth But Know: A Plea for Reason in EducationMethuen, 1909 - 265 sider |
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... sense . " The style is as delightful as the thought is humane , sensitive , inspiring . Who the author is I do not know ; but I say with conviction : Happy the school- boys who come under the influence of " T. B. " ! Mr. William James's ...
... sense . " The style is as delightful as the thought is humane , sensitive , inspiring . Who the author is I do not know ; but I say with conviction : Happy the school- boys who come under the influence of " T. B. " ! Mr. William James's ...
Side 13
... sense and excellent feeling . The Hill , by Mr. Horace Annesley Vachell ( John Murray ) , deals , as its title sufficiently indicates , with Harrow . There runs through it a rather sickly strain of sentiment , and one gathers that the ...
... sense and excellent feeling . The Hill , by Mr. Horace Annesley Vachell ( John Murray ) , deals , as its title sufficiently indicates , with Harrow . There runs through it a rather sickly strain of sentiment , and one gathers that the ...
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... sense . But geniuses are rare under the best of circumstances ; and if we want to have an adequate supply of men of strong and original intelligence , we must take reasonable measures to produce them . The burden of my argument is ...
... sense . But geniuses are rare under the best of circumstances ; and if we want to have an adequate supply of men of strong and original intelligence , we must take reasonable measures to produce them . The burden of my argument is ...
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... it might beget a shallow self - satisfaction , a purblind and priggish positivism ; it might bewilder and crush the youthful mind with a sense of the overwhelming multitude and majesty of pheno- mena ; or it 24 INTRODUCTION.
... it might beget a shallow self - satisfaction , a purblind and priggish positivism ; it might bewilder and crush the youthful mind with a sense of the overwhelming multitude and majesty of pheno- mena ; or it 24 INTRODUCTION.
Side 25
... sense of wonder which it de- signed to stimulate , and produce a condition of mere hebetude and apathy . All these evils , and especially the last , would have to be care- fully guarded against . As Mrs. Boole very wisely points out ...
... sense of wonder which it de- signed to stimulate , and produce a condition of mere hebetude and apathy . All these evils , and especially the last , would have to be care- fully guarded against . As Mrs. Boole very wisely points out ...
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