 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
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...second is from the first two chapters of Hard Times : "'Now what I want is, Facts. Teach these children nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life....of reasoning animals upon facts ; nothing else will be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the... | |
 | English literature - 1854 - 634 pages
...CHARLES DICKENS. 210.] SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1854. [PmcE -id. HARD TIMES. BY CHARLES DICKENS CHAPTER L " Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls...and root out everything else. You can only form the piinds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is... | |
 | Charles Dickens - England - 1854 - 302 pages
...I«R3. HARD TIMES. CHAPTER I. V " Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls no- I thing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing / else, and root out every thing else. You can only form the minds' of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1858 - 490 pages
...the present time. HAED TIMES. HARD TIMES. BOOK THE FIRST. SOWING. CHAPTER I. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL. " Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls...which I bring up my own children, and this is the prinjjiple on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir ! " The scene was a plain, bare,... | |
 | California State Teachers' Institute - Education - 1861 - 498 pages
...instruction. How capitally he hits off what is termed " practical teaching :" " Now, what I want is Factg. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Stick to Facts." The emphasis of the speaker was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forchead,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1864 - 514 pages
...Gradgrind, monsieur! Homme de réalités, homme de faits et de calculs, homme qui part de ce principe 1. " Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls...nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only forni the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them.... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - English literature - 1864 - 516 pages
...Gradgrind, monsieur ! Homme de réalités, homme de faits et de calculs, homme qui part de ce principe 1. " Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Tou can only form the minds of reasoning animais' upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1865 - 948 pages
...youthful Coke-towners with grim facts. After a preliminary address to the teachers in this vein — " Sow what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing...and root out everything else. You can only form the mind of reasoning animals upon facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1865 - 922 pages
...facts. AAer a preliminary address to the teachers in this vein — " Now what I want is facts. Tench gj % T ,!Ϻ J ' __p ~ //>| 74 } 9, & { 7O@ ...osW+& !E abE O Q ;n Ka 2 x/ 8 SeY6 !c 4 v C a V mind of reasoning animals upon facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1865 - 192 pages
...— would have only facts communicated in the instruction of the schools. " What I want," said he, " is facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts....Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. Stick to facts." Stick to the practical, says our extremist of the one part. He quotes with great faith... | |
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