 And that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities; partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 326by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1858Full view - About this book
 | 1904 - 504 pages
...because, forsooth, so much space must be covered. It is, in Milton's words, " a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a bead 38o OCTOBER 1904] filled, by long... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook - 1906 - 164 pages
...have held the same respecting English — ' is our time lost, . . . partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing... | |
 | 1910 - 768 pages
...the case of many teachers who, after years of experiment, persist—to use the words of Milton—in " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment," a process which he compares to the wringing of blood from the... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 360 pages
...in one year." He especially stigmatizes, as Locke did later, the formal work in Latin composition, " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing."... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 pages
...too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous exaction, ott, Foresman and company which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1910 - 358 pages
...in one year." He especially stigmatizes, as Locke did later, the formal work in Lafin composition, " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing."... | |
 | 1911 - 202 pages
...in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities, partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing,... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - 1912 - 314 pages
...in one year." He especially stigmatizes, as Locke did later, the formal work in Latin composition, "forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing."... | |
 | 1912 - 436 pages
...doubtless agree with John Milton, who in his essay On Education asserts that it is a bootless task ' ' forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing,... | |
 | 1915 - 714 pages
...casts our proficiency so much therein behind is our time lost .... partly in a preposterous action, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment, and the final work of a head filled by long reading and observing,... | |
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