A college training is an excellent thing ; but, after all, the better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself, and it is for this that a good library should furnish the opportunity and the means. Texas School Journal - Page 4511902Full view - About this book
| sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) - 1854 - 310 pages
...In accordance with your view of the matter, Sir Walter Scott has somewhere observed, that "the best part of every man's education is that which he gives himself; " and I willingly admit that, among those whose intellect is of the higher order, there are many * Memoir,... | |
| Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1857 - 324 pages
...In accordance with your view of the matter, Sir Walter Scott has somewhere observed, that " the best part of every man's education, is that which he gives himself;" and I willingly admit that, among those whose intellect is of the higher order, there are many who would... | |
| Sir Benjamin Brodie, Charles Hawkins - Medicine - 1865 - 770 pages
...In accordance with your view of the matter, Sir Walter Scott has somewhere observed, that ' the best part of every man's education is that which he gives himself;' and I willingly admit that, among those whose intellect is of the higher order, there are many who would... | |
| Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1865 - 734 pages
...In accordance with your view of the matter, Sir Walter Scott has somewhere observed, that ' the best part of every man's education is that which he gives himself;' and I willingly admit that, among those whose intellect is of the higher order, there are many who would... | |
| General Medical Council (Great Britain) - 1877 - 382 pages
...accordance with your view of the matter, Sir WALTER SCOTT lias somewhere observed, that " the best part of every man's education is that which he gives himself; " and I willingly admit that, among those whose intellect is of the higher order, there are many who would... | |
| Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells - Libraries - 1886 - 534 pages
..." The opening of a free public library, then, is a most important event in the history of any town. A college training is an excellent thing ; but, after...library should furnish the opportunity and the means. I have sometimes thought that our public schools undertook to teach too much, and that the older system,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1886 - 284 pages
...Holmes. The opening of a free public library, then, is a most important event in the history of any town. A college training is an excellent thing ; but, after...library should furnish the opportunity and the means. I have sometimes thought that our public schools undertook to teach too much, and that the older system,... | |
| Dentistry - 1887 - 600 pages
...THIRD SERIES—DECEMBER, 1886. No. 8. ARTICLE I. POST-GRADUATE STUDY. BY JD MOODY, DDS, MENDOTA, ILL. "A college training is an excellent thing; but, after all, the better part of a man's education is that which he gives himself." JAMEH RURSELL LOWELL. I propose making this sentiment... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 398 pages
...Holmes. The opening of a free public library, then, is a most important event in the history of any town. A college training is an excellent thing ; but, after...library should furnish the opportunity and the means. I have sometimes thought that our public schools undertook to teach too much, and that the older system,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - Democracy - 1890 - 338 pages
...Holmes. The opening of a free public library, then, is a most important event in the history of any town. A college training is an excellent thing ; but, after...library should furnish the opportunity and the means. I have sometimes thought that our public schools undertook to teach too much, and that the older system,... | |
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