 | Thorstein Veblen - Education, Higher - 1918 - 306 pages
...two certain impulsive traits of human nature: an Idle Curiosity, and the Instinct of Workmanship.1 In this generic trait the modern learning does not...sought, apart from any ulterior use of the knowledge so gained.2 This, of course, does not imply that the knowledge so gained will not be turned to practical... | |
 | Marc R. Tool - Business & Economics - 1986 - 230 pages
..."propensity to work out the ends which the parental bent makes worth while."22 Idle curiosity suggests that "men instinctively seek knowledge, and value it. The...sought apart from any ulterior use of the knowledge so gained."23 But Veblen does not mean that knowledge so obtained will not be put to practical use. "The... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - Education - 1918 - 270 pages
...The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts, ch. i and pp. 39-45, 52-62, 84-89. In this generic trait the modern learning does not...that men are by native gift actuated with an idle curiosity,—"idle" in the sense that a knowledge of things is sought, apart from any ulterior use... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - Economics - 1993 - 512 pages
...of curiosity— an impulsive proclivity to master the logic of facts ,..'.121 According to Veblen, 'a knowledge of things is sought, apart from any ulterior use of the knowledge so gained'.122 This is 'the idle curiosity' which Veblen refers to throughout his writings, and which... | |
 | Michael Spindler - Business & Economics - 2002 - 196 pages
...Workmanship'. Curiosity is thus added to Veblen's list of human instinctual proclivities and it is 'idle' in the sense 'that a knowledge of things is...from any ulterior use of the knowledge so gained'. The university is the one social institution whose role is the quest for knowledge and the teaching... | |
 | Hans Keman - Political Science - 2002 - 390 pages
...two certain impulsive traits of human nature; an Idle Curiosity, and the Instinct of Workmanship." In this generic trait the modern learning does not...from any ulterior use of the knowledge so gained.'" This, of course, does not imply that the knowledge so gained will not be turned to practical account.... | |
 | Thorstein Veblen - History - 2007 - 225 pages
...Th« Instinct of Workmanship And the State of the Industrial 4rts, ch. I and pp. 39-45, 52-68, 84-89. In this generic trait the modern learning does not...from any ulterior use of the knowledge so gained.* This, of course, does not imply that the knowledge so gained will not be turned to practical account.... | |
 | Donald Stabile - Education - 2007 - 157 pages
...workmanship, which always looked for practical applications or the instinct of idle curiosity, whereby 'knowledge of things is sought apart from any ulterior use of the knowledge so gained' (Veblen 1919: 1-7). Knowledge for its own sake was created and taught only in the graduate schools... | |
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In this generic trait the modern learning does not depart from the rule that holds for the common run. Men instinctively seek knowledge, and value it. The fact of this proclivity is well summed up in saying that men are by native gift actuated with an... 