... has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant... Education in the Nineteenth Century - Side 217redigeret af - 1901 - 274 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| James McGilvray - 2005 - 356 sider
...4-16, passim), a denunciation of the human consequences of the division of labor (for making laborers "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be") (1993d: 18). a passionate attack on the "mal version," "plunder," "knavery," "extravagance," "injustice,"... | |
| David Clark - 2006 - 757 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. (Smith, 1776, vol. 2, pp. 302-3) Smith warned: '[I]n every improved and civilized society this is the... | |
| Daniel Bivona, Roger B. Henkle - 2006 - 224 sider
...who becomes overspecialized: The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become . . . His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expence... | |
| Steve Cohn - 408 sider
...occasion to exert his understanding He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. . . . His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this matter, to be acquired at the expence... | |
| Michael D. Chan - 2006 - 236 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging; and... | |
| Stephen L. Elkin - 2006 - 428 sider
...necessarily formed by their ordinary employments" and that the person engaged in repetitive industrial work "becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." 31 MUTUAL RESPECT A deliberative mode of association must rest on a foundation of mutual respect among... | |
| Sarah S. Lochlann Jain - 2006 - 234 sider
...analogy how a laborer working at one of a number of total procedures available in machinic culture "generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."41 This necessary wounding of the worker is required by the growth of social wealth and, indeed,... | |
| Donald N. Levine - 2006 - 319 sider
...faulted the equalizing trends of modernity for i. Repetition of simple operations rendered workers "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become," and the dexterity thus acquired came "at the expense of [a person's] intellectual, social, and martial... | |
| Paul Gomberg - 2007 - 194 sider
...occasion to exert his understanding. . . . He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. (Smith 1776, vol. 2, book V, ch. 1, art. 2, 302-3) While Smith exaggerates, there is also truth. (We... | |
| Rod Bantjes - 2007 - 429 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. Notice here that he is saying not so much that it is an insult to the worker's intelligence, as that... | |
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