 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pagina’s
...children prematurely wise is Useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It...a little presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boardingschool, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.' She... | |
 | James Boswell - 1844 - 370 pagina’s
...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ?...a little presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, ' To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. She... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1842 - 582 pagina’s
...they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it 1 It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste...expected from precocity, and too little performed." It is difficult to say, whether the evil, here referred to, be more inveterate, or prevalent. A wordy,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1854 - 622 pagina’s
...children prematurely wise is useless labor. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ?...before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labor of the teacher is never to be repaid.'* The remainder of this passage con* Boswell'j Life of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 464 pagina’s
...exercises, yet if a good exercise is given up, out of a great number of boys, it is made by somebody." lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...a little presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, * To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. 1... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 pagina’s
...Doctor to Miss Aikin : " Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss Alkin was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marrying a little 1'ivsliytirian parson, whit keepe an infant Ьоагйтц-^'Ьоо!. so that all her employment now... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pagina’s
...Doctor to Miss Aikin: " Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. ' Miss Aikin was an Instance of early cultivation, but In what did It terminate? In marryinga. little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an Infant boarding-school, so that all her employment... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 pagina’s
...Doctor to Miss Aikin : " Too much Is ехрсч-ted from precocity, and too little performed. Miss Alkin was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate Í In marrying a little I'rvsby Lertan parson, who keep« an Infant tioarding-school. so tbat all her... | |
 | James Copner - 1860 - 90 pagina’s
...This is useless labour," said Dr. Johnson. " Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ?...expected from precocity, and too little performed." But tasking the childish brain before an age when it is sufficiently consolidated to be the fit instrument... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 904 pagina’s
...been as well known, as ever it can be. Endeavoring to make children prematurely wise is useless labor. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years...before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labor of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed.... | |
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I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children,... 
