 Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. 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 : nothing else will ever be of any...  Dickens as an Educator - Sivu 138tekijä(t) James Laughlin Hughes - 1900 - 319 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Charles Dickens - 2003 - 368 sivua
...Belshazzar's feast (Daniel 5), in which King Nebuchadnezzar is warned that his power will be overthrown. 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian... | |
 | Fadi P. Deek, James A. M. McHugh - 2003 - 268 sivua
...EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATION AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT "Now what I want is, Fads... nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life....and root out everything else. You can only form the mind of a reasoning animal upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of service to them. " Mr. Thomas Gradgrind... | |
 | Clare V. Johnson - 2003 - 292 sivua
...of the schooling children receive in the industrialized society of Coketown, where the novel is set. "Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts...life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else."41 Thomas Gradgrind,"a man of facts and calculations," is the proud sponsor of this approach... | |
 | Heidi Stillman - 2003 - 166 sivua
...Mr. M'Choakum child! MR. M'CHOAKUMCHILD: Facts indeed, Mr. Gradgrind! Facts alone are wanted in life. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts ! Girl Number Twenty,... | |
 | Linda L. Brennan, Victoria Elizabeth Johnson - 2004 - 324 sivua
...in the character of Thomas Gradgrind, the schoolmaster. The book opens with Gradgrind proclaiming: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing hut Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can... | |
 | Arthur K. Ellis - 2004 - 179 sivua
...the model school. Hard Times was originally published in 1854. Chapter One — The One Thing Needed "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!" The scene was a... | |
 | Philip C. Rule - 2004 - 200 sivua
...indictment of all that is cold, mechanistic, rationalistic, and utilitarian in the society of that day: Now what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls...the principle on which I bring up my own children and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to the Facts, sir! 4 These "reasoning... | |
 | Paul Chamness Miller - 2005 - 292 sivua
...of 19th-century English schooling, remarkably like the one new teachers will face in modern America: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only torm the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever he of any service to them. This... | |
 | Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove - 2011 - 667 sivua
...of the character in Charles Dickens's book Hard Times, Gradgrind, who admonishes a younger teacher: "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and...nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life." But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented... | |
 | George Sand - 2004 - 208 sivua
...same cultural movement as Dickens's critique of utilitarianism in Hard Times ("Now what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else"). Vet the writer whom Sand undoubtedly had most in mind, when she wrote her celebrated sentence, was... | |
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