 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. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service...  History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun - Page 359by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 802 pages
...Clavigera, Letter 54 (reprinted in Preeterita, i. § 64).] 1 [See the opening words of Bard Timet: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts." For the circus-tent, see eh. iii. There are other references to the book iu Vol. XV. p. 371, and Vol.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 818 pages
...C/avigera, Letter 54 (reprinted iu Prreterita, i. § 54).] 1 [See the opening words of Hard Timet: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts." For the circus-tent, Beech, iii. There are other references to the book iu Vol. XV. p. 371, and Vol.... | |
 | James Welton - 1911 - 554 pages
...not exaggerated by Charles Dickens when he made Mr Gradgrind expound his views on the subject — ' ' Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls...nothing else will ever be of any service to them. . . . " You are to be in all things regulated and governed . . . by fact You must discard the word... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1912 - 258 pages
...can't say I've exactly done it." — Great Expectations, ch. ix. Gradgrind's Conception of Education Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls...nothing else will ever be of any service to them. — Hard Times, bk. i, ch. i. " Your sister is given to government. . . . She ain't over partial to... | |
 | 1912 - 668 pages
...for human interest in Gradgrind's school. His creed is given in the opening paragraph of Hard Times: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...of reasoning animals upon Facts ; nothing else will even be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this... | |
 | Samuel Chester Parker - 1912 - 540 pages
...youthful Coke-towners with grim facts. After a preliminary address to the teachers in this vein — " Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls...and root out everything else. You can only form the mind of reasoning animals upon facts; nothing else ever will be of any service to them. This is the... | |
 | 1912 - 538 pages
...youthful Coke-towners with grim facts. After a preliminary address to the teachers in this vein — " Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls...and root out everything else. You can only form the mind of reasoning animals upon facts; nothing else ever will be of any service to them. This is the... | |
 | 1912 - 714 pages
...for human interest in Oradgrind's school. His creed is given in the opening paragraph of Hard Times: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Farts. Farts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only... | |
 | Calvin Weiss Laufer - 1914 - 240 pages
...only daughter. He took it upon himself to teach her how to live. "You must," said he, "only believe in facts. Facts alone are wanted in life; plant nothing else and root out everything else." He meant to impress upon her young mind that she must admit only those phenomena for which she can... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1914 - 406 pages
...describes him and later makes him reveal himself in his advice to the teacher, Mr. M'Choakumchild: "Now, what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Fact* alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form... | |
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