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" The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. "
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by Benjamin Ives Gilman - 1918 - 434 pages
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin school. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the .bench at the Latin School. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin school. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin school. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...education have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin school. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...education have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin school. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often...
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Physiology of education: mental, moral, and social facts

William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin school." What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often...
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The North-western Monthly: A Magazine Devoted to University ..., Volume 8

1897 - 678 pages
...education; what about the spelling and arithmetic if we spend any time on such things. Emerson says: "What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so." Is a child being educated when he is given the opportunity to put forth his best efforts of mind and...
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