 I will tell you, Gentlemen, what has been the practical error of the last twenty years — not to load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting...  The Downside Review - Page 1151885Full view - About this book
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - 564 pages
...the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not; of considering an acquaintance... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1878 - 146 pages
...the student with a mass of indigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not ; of considering an acquaintance... | |
 | Robert Galloway - 1881 - 488 pages
...the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study, is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not ; of considering an acquaintance... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 454 pages
...the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not ; of considering an acquaintance... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 450 pages
...the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...unmeaning profusion of subjects , of implying that a smattering'in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1901 - 1054 pages
...the student with a mass of undigested knowledge ; but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not ; of considering an acquaintance... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States. Department of Superintendence - 1899 - 446 pages
...the student with a mass of undigested knowledge; but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not; of considering an acquaintance... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1899 - 492 pages
...the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it IS not ; of considering an acquaintance... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1899 - 490 pages
...the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not ; of considering an acquaintance... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1899 - 598 pages
...the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but tojbrceaipon him so much that he has rejected all. It has been the error of distracting and enfeebling...implying that a smattering in a dozen branches of study is not shallowness, which it really is, but enlargement, which it is not; of considering an acquaintance... | |
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