Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek, as might be learned otherwise easily... American Annals of Education - Էջ 2391839Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 612 էջ
...bestowed in pure trifling at grammar and sophistry." "We do amiss," he says, "to spend 7 or 3 years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and delightMilton succeeded as man not master. fully in one year." Without an explanation of the " otherwise... | |
| Edmund Kell Blyth - 1892 - 462 էջ
...centuries which had elapsed. John Milton wrote in 1644:— " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping " together so much miserable Latin and..."be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one "year."1 LcJcke, writing in 1692,° says: — " Would not a Chinese, who took notice of our way of... | |
| Samuel Gardner Williams - 1892 - 438 էջ
...conveying to us things useful to be known." Hence he blames the schools for wasting seven or eight years " in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learned easily and delightfully in one year." This loss of time he attributes partly to too frequent vacations,... | |
| David Masson - 1859 - 758 էջ
...Learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful. First, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might he learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. And that which casts our proficiency therein... | |
| 1903 - 636 էջ
...and delightful knowledge." Lewis recognises, like Milton, " we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." Similarly, Lewis says the pupil " may now " (ie after learning grammar, as he proposes), " learn things... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - 314 էջ
...letter to Master Samuel Hartlib on education, tersely says : " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year " ; for, as he truly observes, " though a linguist... | |
| Classical Association of England and Wales - 1904 - 266 էջ
...learning generally so unpleasing and so unsuccessful ; first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...is our time lost, partly in too oft idle vacancies, partly in preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and... | |
| 1904 - 268 էջ
...first we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Ijitin and Greek as might be learned otherwise easily and...is our time lost, partly in too oft idle vacancies, partly in preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1906 - 606 էջ
...the Eoyal Society, is urgently true to-day. He wrote : " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." Later on Evelyn made a similar complaint. " At most schools," he wrote, "there is a casting away of... | |
| 1906 - 660 էջ
...the Royal Society, is urgently true to-day. He wrote : " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." Later, Evelyn made a similar complaint. " At most schools," he wrote, " there is a casting away of... | |
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