| Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1768 - 336 oldal
...indeed to excel himfelf, and fo he ought to be ; I fee no inconvenience in this kind of emulation. I hate books ; they only teach people to talk about what they do not underftand. It is faid that Hermes engraved the elements of the feiences on columns, to fecure... | |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 1783 - 318 oldal
...indeed to excel himfelf, and fo he ought to be ; I fee no inconvenience in this kind of emulation. I hate books ; they only teach people to talk about what they don't underftand. It is faid that Hermes engraved the elements of the fciences on columns, to fecure his difcoveries... | |
| William Blackley Drummond - 1915 - 166 oldal
...great value by permitting the child to share the imagination of others. Even Rousseau, who declares, " I hate books, they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand," acknowledged the intellectual value to the child of Robinson Crusoe, which was to form... | |
| Charles Alpheus Bennett - 1926 - 472 oldal
...than he will retain from a whole day's verbal instructions." (13 — II, 64) In another place he says: "I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand." (13 — II, 58) He would have Emile taught the simple manual arts. He considered labor... | |
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