...and others, is that we must proceed from the easier to the more difficult. We are warned against " a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...themes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of the ripest judgment." Matters were indeed far worse in Milton's time than they arc now in this respect....

...empty wits of children to compooe "hemes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest judgement, and the final work of a head filled, by long reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copioiu invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor rtriplings, like blood out of the nose,...

...in one year." He especially stigmatizes, as Locke did later, the formal work in Latin composition, " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...work of a head filled by long reading and observing." An Encyclopaedic but Humanistic Program. — It is not, however, the study of classics in itself that...

...in one year." He especially stigmatizes, as Locke did later, the formal work in Lafin composition, " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...work of a head filled by long reading and observing." An Encyclopaedic but Humanistic Program. — It is not, however, the study of classics in itself that...

...the case of many teachers who, after years of experiment, persist—to use the words of Milton—in " forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...orations, which are the acts of ripest judgment," a process which he compares to the wringing of blood from the nose, and "the plucking of untimely fruit,"*...

...necessary." — Quoted by Masson, in, 210. 2 Cf. P. R. iv, 321-30. to schools and universities ; partly in a preposterous ! exaction, forcing the empty wits...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. 2 These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or...

...is our time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities, partly in a preposterous exaction, forcing the empty wits of...reading and observing, with elegant maxims, and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the...

...doubtless agree with John Milton, who in his essay On Education asserts that it is a bootless task ' ' forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention." Those who look with unsympathetic eyes on courses in composition usually make the mistake...

...in one year." He especially stigmatizes, as Locke did later, the formal work in Latin composition, "forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...work of a head filled by long reading and observing." and advocates ideas rather than words. Milton recommends an encyclopaedic program, including sciences,...

...casts our proficiency so much therein behind is our time lost .... partly in a preposterous action, forcing the empty wits of children to compose themes,...reading and observing, with elegant maxims and copious invention. These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings like blood out of the nose, or the...