| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 498 pągines
...UNITE THEM . . . 440 HARD TIMES HARD TIMES. BOOK THE FIEST. SOWING. CHAPTER I. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL. "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...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... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1908 - 812 pągines
...BOOK THE FIRST.-SOWING. ;,,- CHAPTER I.,•., ,„ •i- .. / . • : THE ONE THING NEEDFUL. •• T "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...Facts .alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, ant] root out everything else. , You can only• form the.• minds of reasoning animals upon Facts:... | |
| Sir Frank Thomas Marzials - 1908 - 600 pągines
...taught that " a cow is a graminivorous, ruminating quadruped." They were never allowed to fancy. " Now what I want is facts. Teach these boys and girls...nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon facts." To Sissy Jupe he said at the examination,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1908 - 300 pągines
...FIRST. SOWING. CHAPTER I. THE ONE THING NEEDFUL. OW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and _ girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in...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... | |
| Publius Papinius Statius, David Ansell Slater - 1908 - 228 pągines
...incongruous or impossible. To the advocates of stern matter-of-fact, the Gradgrinds of society, with their ' 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 ... In this life we want nothing but... | |
| 1866 - 640 pągines
...truths, says :—" Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alono 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 be of service to them.... | |
| James Welton - 1911 - 554 pągines
...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...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... | |
| 1912 - 668 pągines
...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...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts ; nothing else will even be of any service... | |
| 1912 - 538 pągines
...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...Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the mind of reasoning animals upon facts; nothing else ever will be of any service... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1912 - 258 pągines
...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...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... | |
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