Educational Review, Band 75

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H. Holt, 1928
 

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Seite 98 - Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Seite 173 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 50 - Possibly too you may have heard it said that the course of centuries has changed all this ; and that ' the true University of our days is a Collection of Books.
Seite 170 - Christmas day, and that is keeping Christmas. Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you ; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your...
Seite 173 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need 1 Pruning, cultivating.
Seite 287 - In what way to treat the body; in what way to treat the mind; in what way to manage our affairs; in what way to bring up a family; in what way to behave as a citizen; in what way to utilize all those sources of happiness which nature supplies — how to use all our faculties to the greatest advantage of ourselves and others — how to live completely?
Seite 56 - I turned my chair to the fire and dozed. Again the atoms were gambolling before my eyes. This time the smaller groups kept modestly in the background. My mental eye, rendered more acute by repeated visions of this kind, could now distinguish larger structures, of manifold conformation : long rows, sometimes more closely fitted together; all turning and twisting in snakelike motion. But look ! what was that?
Seite 50 - And so they gathered together the various people who had anything to teach, and formed themselves gradually, under the patronage of kings and other potentates who were anxious about the culture of their populations, nobly anxious for their benefit, and became a University.
Seite 56 - My mental eye, rendered more acute by repeated visions of the kind, could now distinguish larger structures, of manifold conformation: long rows, sometimes more closely fitted together; all twining and twisting in snake-like motion. But look! What was that? One of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the form whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lightning I awoke; and this time also I spent the rest of the night in working out the consequences of the hypothesis.
Seite 82 - College, chairman of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the American Civil Liberties Union, said yesterday that his committee was seeking to bring into court a test case to determine the constitutionality of the Delaware law providing for compulsory Bible reading "without comment" in the public schools of that state.

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