... 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 223redigeret af - 1901 - 274 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Christina Petsoulas - 2001 - 220 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'.209 His education and habits 'render him unfit to judge even though he was fully informed'.210... | |
| John Mueller - 2001 - 348 sider
...Adam Smith anticipated that as workers came to concentrate on repetitive tasks, they would "become as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become" and be rendered incapable of exercising "invention" or "of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender... | |
| Louis G. Putterman, Professor of Economics Louis Putterman - 2001 - 308 sider
...Adam Smith who wrote, "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."25 Although the operations of the specialized economist are hardly simple, a critic of modern... | |
| Jon McKenzie - 2001 - 338 sider
...Chomsky, "but not his denunciation of its inhuman effects, which will turn working people into oblects 'as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be.""' Championing the glories of global performance and ignoring its traumatic effects, putting profits... | |
| Wei-Bin Zhang - 2003 - 458 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...for a human creature to become. The torpor of his minds renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation,... | |
| Noam Chomsky - 2003 - 500 sider
...understanding, or to exercise his invention" and "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 mind falling "into that drowsy stupidity which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding... | |
| Berch Berberoglu - 2002 - 236 sider
...spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding. ... He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."1 Yet he also saw the division of labor as the necessary foundation for the efficient production... | |
| E. K. Hunt - 2002 - 308 sider
...who had stated that "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" (Smith 1970, p. 80). Forced into a condition of stupor and increasingly severely alienated, "the lot... | |
| James Buchan - 2009 - 468 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.' An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. RH Campbell, AS Skinner and WB... | |
| Ziyad Marar - 2003 - 216 sider
...frequently to one or two . . . 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. Despite attempts to stem the rising tide of alienation (think of Marx and Engels urging 'workers of... | |
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