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...rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now-a-days," said he, " got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught...good as reading the books from which the lectures aie taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown....

...been so fine a poem since Pope's time.' Talking of education, ' People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures!' At night...

...been so fine a poem since Pope's time.' Talking of education, ' People have now a-days, (said he,}got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures ! ' At...

...opinion of Johnson at a much earlier date: " People have nowadays got strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that may be taught by lectures except where experiments are shown. . . . Lectures were once useful, but...

...opinion of Johnson at a much earlier date: " People have nowadays got strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that may be taught by lectures except where experiments are shown. . . . Lectures were once useful, but...

...opinion of Johnson at a much earlier date: " People have nowadays got strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that may be taught by lectures except where experiments are shown. . . . Lectures were once useful, but...

...Talking of education, "People have nowadays," said he [Johnson], "got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...shown. You may teach chemistry by lectures: — you might teach making of shoes by lectures!" school ball, a general at the head of a victorious army,...

...Talking of education, "People have nowadays," said he [Johnson], "got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...shown. You may teach chemistry by lectures: — you might teach making of shoes by lectures!" II I mentioned Hume's notion, that all who are happy are...

...classroom. Dr. Johnson meant something like this when he said, in commenting upon the lecture system: "I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as...reading the books from which the lectures are taken." Stephen Leacock apparently wished to convey the same idea when he declared, with avowed seriousness,...