 | John Swett - Public schools - 1876 - 276 pages
...rights." CHARLES DICKENS. Btruction. How capitally he hits off what is termed "practical teaching:" "'Now, what I want is Facts. Teach -these boys and...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Stick to facts.' The emphasis of the speaker was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 622 pages
...nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the mind of rea.-onuig animals upon tacts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle upon which I bring up my own children, and this s the principle on which I bring up tlieee children.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1876 - 620 pages
...youthful Coke-towners with grim facts. Alter a preliminary address to the teachers in this vein — "Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facU. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only... | |
 | Sir Wyke Bayliss - Art - 1879 - 212 pages
...which is Holiness. F And yet there may be false conceptions about Truth, and ugly ideas about Beauty. " What I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls...else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals on Facts. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which... | |
 | University of Missouri - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 522 pages
...and others like him were the founders of this utilitarian system. "What I want," said Mr. Gradgrind," "is facts; teach these boys and girls nothing but...are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out every thing else." Now, I do not admit that the study of mathematics is valuable merely as a mental... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - 520 pages
...like him were the founders of this utilitarian system. "What I want," said Mr. Gradgrind," "is fctcls; teach these boys and girls nothing but facts; facts...are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out every thing else." Now, I do not admit that the study of mathematics is valuable merely as a mental... | |
 | University of Missouri - Lectures and lecturing - 1879 - 522 pages
...him were the founders of this utilitarian system. "What I want," said Mr. Gradgrind," "is fac»'s; teach these boys and girls nothing but facts; facts...are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out every thing else." Now, I do not admit that the studv of mathematics is valuable merelv as a mental... | |
 | Education - 1928 - 684 pages
...pictured the English schoolmaster, admonished by the school director to secure a recitation of facts: "Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls...animals upon facts ; nothing else will ever be of service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my children and this is the principle on... | |
 | James H. Smart - Books and reading - 1880 - 98 pages
...mind of a child with facts, else we shall have the sad history of Mr. Gradgrind's family retold : " Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls...alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root up everything else." Mr. Gradgrind laid it down as a law that children were never to wonder. Indeed... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...would educate children as they raise hogs, by placing them in favorable circumstances to fatten: ' "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing hut Facts. Facts alone arc wanted In life. Plant nothing elite, and root out everything else. You can... | |
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Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. 
