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" Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses. "
Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of ... - Page 84
by American Institute of Instruction - 1873
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Inaugural Address: Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st, 1867

John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 108 pages
...cramming their memory with details. And so of all other useful pursuits, mechanical included. Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that...mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses. This, then, is what a mathematician would call the higher limit of University education : its province...
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Inaugural address, delivered to the University of St. Andrews

John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 112 pages
...cramming their memory with details. And so of all other useful pursuits, mechanical included. Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that...mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses. This, then, is what a mathematician would call the higher limit of University education : its province...
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Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and ..., Volume 4

John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 476 pages
...cramming their memory with details. And so of all other useful pursuits, mechanical included. Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that...mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses. This, then, is what a mathematician would call the higher limit of University education : its province...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1867 - 972 pages
...the light of general culture to illuminate the technicalities of a special pursuit. Education nuke« a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not bv teaching him how to muku shoes ; it does so by the mental ñõåãñûå it give?, aud the habit...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pages
...cramming their memory with details. Ami so of all other useful pursuits, mechanical included. Education This, then, is what a mathematician would call the higher limit of University education : its province...
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Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ...

United States. Bureau of Education, United States. Office of Education - 1877 - 706 pages
...and of all plans of instruction should be to form capable and sensible men. This general "education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that...mental exercise it gives and the habits it impresses." General education, therefore, must not be undervalued ; it must be amply provided for and rigidly iusisted...
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Education, Volume 7

1887 - 804 pages
...cramming his memory with details. And so of all other useful pursuits, mechanical included. Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that...mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses." (John Stuart Mill, University of St. Andrews' Address.) Carlyle somewhere pictures society as a general...
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Education, Volume 24

1904 - 692 pages
...or literature, ' but found it upon the rock of thorough instruction. "Education," says John Stuart Mill, "makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if...it does so by the mental exercise it gives and the habit it impresses"; and as our own compatriot, James Russell Lowell, contends, "It matters less what...
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Annual Meeting: Proceedings, Constitution, List of Active Members, and Addresses

American Institute of Instruction - 1884 - 274 pages
...the light of general culture to illuminate the technicalities of any special pursuit." " Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, — - not by teaching him how to make shoes, but by the mental strength it gives and the habits it...
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The Downside Review, Volume 4

1885 - 326 pages
...cramming their memory with details. And so of all other useful pursuits, mechanical included. Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that...exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses."— In augural address, pp. 4, 5. And this is the answer that we would make to a question sometimes put...
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