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" We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for .ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. "
The Craftsman - Page 174
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Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...that an education to things was not given. We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen...arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day by the sun. It is well if we can swim...
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Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...that an education to things was not given. We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen...arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day by the sun. It is well if we can swim...
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Essays, Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 pages
...education to things was not given. We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, arid recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come...arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day by the sun. It is well if we can swim...
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Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volumes 1-4

Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1870 - 1232 pages
...things. There is truth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation -rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. The old English rule was, 'All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.' The sight of a planet...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...that an education to things was not given. We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges. and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen...arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day by the sun. It is well if we can swim...
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Essays: 2nd series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...education to things was not given. We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, arid recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come...arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods, we cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day by the sun. It is well if we can swim...
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Annual Report of the Board of Education Together with the ..., Volume 34

Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1870 - 560 pages
...study of words, the study of things. There is truth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation-rooms for ten or fifteen years,...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. The old English rule was, ' All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.' The sight of a planet...
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Report of the Commissioner of Education

United States. Office of Education - Education - 1870 - 590 pages
...— There is trnth in the remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a...wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. — Ib. School appropriations. — Your committee have been recently asked whether the town could not...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...that an education to things was not given. /We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen...out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, arid do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents ..., Volume 4, Part 2

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1871 - 624 pages
...remark that "we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms ten or fifteen years, und come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. — Ib. Educativa in the preñen!, the strength of the future. — The strength of the future' tirvii...
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