 | Daniel Pool - 1994 - 422 sider
...are), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains. ... If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more! I" Sue Bridehead in ]ude the Obscure attends such a college near the end of the century, a grim... | |
 | Oliver Conant - 2013 - 130 sider
...class gesture, indicating deference to a social superior. 5. "Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!" 6. The government officer is compared to a boxer, "ready to fight all England." 7. The government... | |
 | Donald Hawes - 1998 - 310 sider
...40, 41, 46, 51, 53) M'Choakumchild, Mr (HT) The schoolmaster employed by Mr Gradgrind to teach facts. 'If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!' (I: 1, 2, 9, 14) Meagles, Minnie (Pet) (LD) The Meagles's beautiful daughter. 'A fair girl with... | |
 | Simon Goldhill - 2002 - 340 sider
...full curriculum including sciences, land-surveying and levelling, which leads the narrator to lament, 'If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more."27 Dickens' savagery towards 'Facts' as the watchword of the new turn in education - echoed "3... | |
 | Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard D. Smith, Paul Standish - 2002 - 438 sider
...boundaries and bearings on the two -and -thirty points of the compass. Ah, rather overdone, McChoakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more! Dickens is here ridiculing an approach to education in which the highest importance is attached... | |
 | Mark Pike - 2003 - 214 sider
...all the countries, and all their boundaries and bearings on the two-and-thirty points of the compass. Ah, rather overdone, Mr Choakumchild. If he had only...less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more! Standardization, where either teachers or pupils are 'turned at the same time, in the same factory,... | |
 | 2004 - 228 sider
...boundaries and bearings on the two and thirty points of the compass. Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more. Charles Dickens, Hard Times, 1854, Chapter 1 The schoolmasters created by Dickens could fill... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2004 - 1354 sider
...boundaries and bearings on the two and thirty points of the compass. Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more! He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1891 - 904 sider
...one of these requisites is wanting, no amount of professional study or reading of educational Ixwks can supply the deficiency. There has broken out lately...less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more ! '' However, if these graduates come into our schools, we ought to open to them every possible... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1887 - 604 sider
...boundaries and bearings on the two-and-thirty points of the compass. Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild ! If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more ! He went to work, in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves : looking... | |
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... (whatever they are), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains, and all the productions, manners, and customs of all the countries, and all their boundaries and bearings on the two and thirty points... 
