 | A. J. Jones - 2000 - 304 pages
...Theory: Mathematical Models of Conflict Dedication: To Tina Talking of education, people have now a-days" (said he) "got a strange opinion that every thing...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymestry by lectures — You might teach making of shoes by lectures!" James Boswell:... | |
 | H. J. Jackson - 2001 - 344 pages
..."Talking of education, 'People have now-adays, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing ought to be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You might teach chymistry by lectures. — You might teach making of shoes by lectures!'" (1:337).... | |
 | D. Martin - 2002 - 428 pages
...MANIFOLD THEORY An Introduction for Mathematical Physicists "Talking of education, people have now a-days" (said he) "got a strange opinion that every thing...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymestry by lectures — You might teach making of shoes by lectures!" James Boswell:... | |
 | G De Barra - 2003 - 246 pages
...Thi s One UWZC-RX5-JXJA MEASURE THEORY AND INTEGRATION "Talking of education, people have now a-days" (said he) "got a strange opinion that every thing...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymestry by lectures — You might teach making of shoes by lectures!" James BosweJJ.... | |
 | D N Burghes, A Graham - 2004 - 404 pages
...BURCHES ALEXANDER GRAHAM THEORIES WITH APPLICATIONS "Talking of education, people have now a-days" (said he) "got a strange opinion that every thing...lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn You may teach chymestry by lectures — You might teach making of shoes by lectures!" James Boswell:... | |
 | Samuel Warren, Thomas W. Clerke - 2004 - 676 pages
...p. 149. Hear also Dr. Johnson : — " People have now-a-days got a strange opinion, that everything should be taught by LECTURES. Now I cannot see that...taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown. You may teach Chemistry by lectures ; you might teach making of shoes by lectures." — Boswell's... | |
 | Kieran C. Molloy - 2004 - 160 pages
...THEORY FOR CHEMISTS Fundamental Theory and Applications "Talking of education, people have now a-days" (said he) "got a strange opinion that every thing...reading the books from which the lectures are taken. 1 know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may... | |
 | Bruce Yeany - 2006 - 294 pages
...not new. In fact, Samuel Johnson said: People have now-a-days got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that...which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can best be taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shown (Boswell 1766). Until recently,... | |
 | Charles Hall Grandgent - 1924 - 236 pages
...This was recorded by Boswell in 1781; already in 1766 the Doctor had remarked: "People have now-a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught...reading the books from which the lectures are taken." We are not so modern as we think: the whole theory and practice of the lecture were understood a century... | |
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People have now-a-days (said he), got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught... 
