Joan and Peter: The Story of an EducationMacmillan, 1918 - 594 pagina's This novel is about a boy born in Victorian England prior to the First World War. |
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Pagina 116 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Pagina 420 - Well, is there nothing? Do you know of nothing?" Oswald turned on his ward for the reply. "There's a sort of idea, I suppose.
Pagina 589 - Perhaps some men have meant this when they talked of Love, but he himself had loved because of this, and so he held it must be something greater than Love. Perhaps some men have intended it in their use of the word Beauty, but it seemed to him that rather it made and determined Beauty for him. And others again have known it as the living presence of God, but the name of God was to Oswald a name battered out of all value and meaning. And yet it was by this, by this Nameless, this Incomprehensible,...
Pagina 589 - There was a light upon his life, and the truth was that he could not discover the source of the light nor define its nature ; there was a presence in the world about him that made all life worth while, and yet it was Nameless and Incomprehensible. It was the Essence beyond Reality; it was the Heart of All Things.
Pagina 561 - A series of little teaching chaps trying to follow up and fix the fluctuating boundaries of communities " — an image came into Oswald's head that pleased him and led him on — " like an insufficient supply of upholsterers trying to overtake and tack down a carpet that was blowing away in front of a gale.
Pagina 27 - I'm getting to be a fanatic about education. Give me the schools of the world and I would make a Millennium in half a century.
Pagina 505 - I've got to leave you all alone if I leave one alone. Don't you see that ? In spite of the mess you are in. So don't blame me. Don't blame me. There isn'ta thing in the whole of this concern of mine that Man can't control if only he chooses to control it. It's arranged like that. There's a lot more system here than you suspect, only it's too ingenious for you to see. It's yours to command. If you want a card index for the world— well, get a card index. I won't prevent you. If you don't like my...
Pagina 391 - Just for a moment the magnificence hung in the eye — and passed. What had they seen? Cloaks, helmets, hard visages, one distinctive pallid face; something melodramatic, something eager and in a great hurry, something that went by like the sound of a trumpet, a figure of vast enterprise in shining armour, with mailed fist. This was the symbol upon which these young Germans were being concentrated. This was the ideal that had gripped them. Something very modern and yet romantic, something stupendously...
Pagina 562 - This idea of a world-wide commonwealth, this ideal of an everlasting worldpeace in which we are to live and move and have our being, has to be built up in every school, in every mind, in every lesson.
Pagina 279 - Oswald was realizing for the first time the eternal tragedy of the teacher, that sower of unseen harvests, that reaper of thistles and the wind, that serf of custom, that subjugated rebel, that feeble, persistent antagonist of the triumphant things that rule him.