 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody." " I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long...can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 pages
...exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody." " I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long...can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 500 pages
...exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody.' ' I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known, as ever it can be 5. En' Four years later Johnson thus spoke to Miss Burney of her father : — ' " I love Burney ; my... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 522 pages
...exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody.' ' I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known, as ever it can be5. En' Four years later Johnson thus places.' Johnson's Works, v. 265. spoke to Miss Burney of her... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pages
...suspected of inaccuracy in other things." ' Piozzi's Anecdotes, P. i49. Education : I HATE by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long...can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...good exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody." "I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long...can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - 1890 - 612 pages
...opinions." How our thoughts have widened about education since a man like Dr. Johnson could assert, " Education is as well known, and has long been as well known, as ever it can be !"* (Hill's Boswell's J. ij, 407.) The astronomers of the Middle Ages might as well have asserted that... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1895 - 940 pages
...which we should so cordially give him, could he assure us, as he did his contemporaries in 1775, that "education is as well known and has long been as well known as it ever can be," and discuss for us from his standpoint the document under consideration, we should... | |
 | Joseph John Findlay - 1897 - 304 pages
...attention from public men. Johnson had declared, in the previous century (chapter XXVIL in Boswell), that " Education is as well known, and has long been as well known, as ever it can be," and, in England, no one of reputation disputed this verdict. The contemporary revival of education... | |
 | 1898 - 474 pages
...hands of one of these tormentors when he allowed the expression to escape him, " I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be." The emphatic old doctor little foresaw that his testy epigram would be read by a generation which looks... | |
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Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. 
