The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 128Atlantic Monthly Company, 1921 - American essays |
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Page 13
This man had the books of Isaiah , but he went behind the books with his observations , as sub- stance goes behind shadow , appealing from the books direct to life and nature . Life and nature are still the source of originality ...
This man had the books of Isaiah , but he went behind the books with his observations , as sub- stance goes behind shadow , appealing from the books direct to life and nature . Life and nature are still the source of originality ...
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There are sev- eral educations , however : one , in the public school , for democracy ; another , in and out of school , for individuality ; and another distinct and essential edu- cation , in life and nature , for authority as great a ...
There are sev- eral educations , however : one , in the public school , for democracy ; another , in and out of school , for individuality ; and another distinct and essential edu- cation , in life and nature , for authority as great a ...
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The trouble is too much school education and too little natural edu- cation . We limit education to the school , as if the ... nature , and her companionship , and his own soul's . The simple needs of authorship have not changed .
The trouble is too much school education and too little natural edu- cation . We limit education to the school , as if the ... nature , and her companionship , and his own soul's . The simple needs of authorship have not changed .
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His education is more out of things than books , more out of solitude than society , more out of nature than schools . The author is single , original , free ; he uses raw mate- rials , elements , earths that are with- out form ...
His education is more out of things than books , more out of solitude than society , more out of nature than schools . The author is single , original , free ; he uses raw mate- rials , elements , earths that are with- out form ...
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Human nature is unique , and not to be handled by machine . It is active , a doing nature , fit for unfinished earth , not heaven , the earth - partner , and co- creator in God's slowly shaping world . Send human nature to school ?
Human nature is unique , and not to be handled by machine . It is active , a doing nature , fit for unfinished earth , not heaven , the earth - partner , and co- creator in God's slowly shaping world . Send human nature to school ?
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