 | Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - Naturalists - 1916 - 564 pages
...when describing his schooldays at precisely the same age at Shrewsbury Grammar School, where, he says, "the school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." It is therefore interesting to notice, side by side, as it were, the occupation which each boy found... | |
 | Classical philology - 1917 - 688 pages
...one of the greatest of schoolmasters, Dr. Samuel Butler, yet in his autobiography Darwin asserts that "the school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." But we begin to doubt this sweeping statement when immediately afterward we are told that much attention... | |
 | Nannie Niemeyer - Child development - 1921 - 228 pages
...Dr. Butler's great school in Shrewsbury, and remained there for seven years, (until) ... I was 1 6 years old. ... Nothing could have been worse for the...as a means of education to me was simply a blank. . . . Much attention was paid to learning by heart the lessons of the previous day ; this I could effect... | |
 | 1916 - 608 pages
...teach us nothing, feeding not the heart." Charles Darwin, referring to Shrewsbury, states plainly that "the school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." Edmund Gosse thinks of his boarding-school days with loathing:— "It was a period during which, as... | |
 | James Pendleton Lichtenberger - Sociology - 1923 - 504 pages
...* Cf. The Principle of Population, Ch. IV. "Ibid.. Ch. V. wCf. Gide and Rist, op. cit., pp. 120-37. "Nothing could have been worse for the development...Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical. . . . The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." 17 In his autobiography he speaks... | |
 | Floyd Lavern Darrow - Inventors - 1923 - 384 pages
...Butler's famous boarding school, where he learned little but Latin and Greek. He afterwards said, " Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school." According to his masters, he seems to have been just " a very ordinary boy, rather below the common... | |
 | Education - 1912 - 564 pages
...Collected essays: II. Darwiniana, p. 253-302. 135 years, until the midsummer of 1825. "Nothing," he says, " could have been worse for the development of my mind...taught, except a little ancient geography and history. . . . Especial attention was paid to verse-making, and this I could never do well. . . . Much attention... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1906 - 560 pages
...time wasted " is explained earlier, when he says, in his autobiography, speaking of his boyhood, — " nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school (at Shrewsbury), as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography... | |
 | Walter Fenno Dearborn - Ability - 1928 - 388 pages
...that he may meet with a climate propitious to his progress." Charles Darwin says in his autobiography: "During my whole life, I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. . . . When I left the school, I was for my age neither high nor low, and I believe that I was considered... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1888 - 324 pages
...esteemed of much value to him. Of Dr. Butler's school, which he attended for seven years, he says : "Nothing could have been worse for the development...as a means of education to me was simply a blank." He used to work at chemistry in a little laboratory fitted up by his brother in the toolhouse in the... | |
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Nothing could have been worse for the development " of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly " classical, nothing else being taught except a little ancient " geography and history. The school, as a means of " education to me, was simply... 
