 | George Darley - 1835 - 142 pages
...by authority, Instead of demonstration. This system Is now passing away ; and many preceptors may be found who are of opinion that, whatever may be the...that, under the present system, five years of a boy's life are partially spent in merely learning the rule* contained in this treatise, and those, for the... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1836 - 448 pages
...by authority, instead of demonstration. This system is now passing away; and many preceptors may be found who are of opinion that, whatever may be the...that, under the present system, five years of a boy's life are partially spent in merely learning the rules contained in this treatise, and those, for the... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Engines - 1836 - 440 pages
...by authority, instead of demonstration. This system is now passing away; and many preceptors may be found who are of opinion that, whatever may be the additional trouble to themselves, their pupilg should always be induced to reflect upon, and know the reason of, what they are doing. Such... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Algebra - 1837 - 308 pages
...by authority, instead of demonstration. This system is now passing away ; and many preceptors may be found who are of opinion that whatever may be the...that, under the present system, five years of a boy's life are partially spent in merely learning the rules contained in this treatise, and those, for the... | |
 | Charles Reiner - Geometry - 1837 - 254 pages
...by authority, instead of demonstration. This system is now passing away ; and many preceptors may be found who are of opinion that, whatever may be the...that, under the present system, five years of a boy's life are partially spent in merely learning the rules contained in this treatise, and those, for the... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Algebra - 1837 - 308 pages
...by authority, instead of demonstration. This system is now passing away ; and many preceptors may be found who are of opinion that whatever may be the...that, under the present system, five years of a boy's life are partially spent in merely learning the rules contained in this treatise, and those, for the... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Algebra - 1837 - 314 pages
...demonstration. 1 his system is now passing away ; and many preceptors may be found who are of opinion th,it whatever may be the additional trouble to themselves,...that, under the present system, five years of a boy's life are partially spent in merely learning the iiiles contained in this treatise, ami those, for the... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Algebra - 1840 - 182 pages
...by authority instead of demonstration. This system is now passing away, and many preceptors may be found who are of opinion that, whatever may be the...that under the present system, five years of a boy's life are partially spent in merely learning the rules contained in this treatise, and those, for the... | |
 | Education - 1850 - 488 pages
...by authority instead of demonstration. This system is now passing away, and many preceptors may be found who are of opinion that, whatever may be the...the principle of a rule. It is no exaggeration to say,that under the present system, five years of a boy's life are spent (partially) in merely learning... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - English language - 1851 - 236 pages
...by authority instead of demonstration. This system is now passing away, and many preceptors may be found, who are of opinion, that, whatever may be the...always be induced to reflect upon, and know the reason for, what they are doing. Such I would advise not to be discouraged by the failure of a first attempt... | |
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... hard thing to make them think ; so hard, indeed, that masters had, within the last few years, almost universally abandoned the attempt, and taught them rules instead of principles, by authority instead of demonstration. This system is now passing... 
