 | James Harris - Grammar - 1751 - 484 pages
...ufe of their own under/landings. He thinks nothing more abfurd than the common notion of Inftmtfion, as if Science were to be poured into the Mind, like water into a ciftern, that paffively waits to receive all that comes. The growth of Knmsolege he rather thinks to... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1765 - 502 pages
...ufc of their own underftandings. He thinks nothing more abfurd than the common notion of Inftru&ionr as if Science were to be poured into the Mind, like water into a ciftern, that pajfively waits to receive all that comes. The growth of Knowlege he rather thinks to... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1773 - 510 pages
...public, has been to excite his Readers to curibfity and inquiry; not to teach them himfelf by prolix and formal Lectures, (from the efficacy of which, he has little expectation) but to induce them, if poflible* to become Teachers to themfelves, by an impartial ufe of their own underftandings. He thinks... | |
 | James Harris - Grammar, Comparative and general - 1806 - 494 pages
...public, has been to excite his Readers to curiosity and inquiry; not to teach them himself' by prolix and formal Lectures, (from the efficacy of which he has...understandings. He thinks nothing more absurd than the O common notion of Instruction, as if Science were to be poured into the Mind, like water into a cistern,... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...Whichcote. 61. It has been remarked,—" that no one can be taught faster than he can learn." 62. Nothing is more absurd than the common notion of instruction;...cistern, that passively waits to receive all that comes.—Harris. 63. The framers of preventive laws, no less than private tutors and schoolmasters,... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...as the teacher. — Dr WMchcote. 61. It has been remarked, — " that no one can be 62. Nothing is more absurd than the common notion of instruction;...cistern, that passively waits to receive all that comes.—Harris. 63. The framers of preventive laws, no less than private tutors and schoolmasters,... | |
 | United States. Department of Education (1867-1868) - Education - 1868 - 928 pages
...Phidias or a Praxiletes could not give several nice touches and finishings. JOSEPH ADDISOX. Nothing is more absurd than the common notion of instruction ; as if science were to he poured into the mind like water into a cistern, that passively waits to receive all that comes.... | |
 | Robert Potts - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1875 - 208 pages
...taught ; for the learner has something to do as well as the teacher. — Dr. Whichcote. 69. Nothing is more absurd than the common notion of instruction...cistern, that passively waits to receive all that comes. — Harris. 70. The framers of preventive laws, no less than private tutors and schoolmasters, should... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Sunday schools - 1884 - 416 pages
...means, found general acceptance as yet. " Nothing is more absurd," says an eminent English teacher, " than the common notion of instruction, as if science...poured into the mind, like water into a cistern." It is as if in comment on this figure, that Thomas Carlylehas said: " To sit as a passive bucket, and... | |
 | Mary Augusta Jordan - English language - 1904 - 264 pages
...public, has been to excite his Readers to curiosity and inquiry; not to teach them himself by prolix and formal Lectures (from the efficacy of which he has...Teachers to themselves, by an impartial use of their own understanding. He thinks nothing more absurd than the common notion of Instruction, as if Science were... | |
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He thinks nothing more absurd than the common notion of Instruction, as if Science were to be poured into the Mind, like water into a cistern, that passively waits to receive all that comes. 
