...rendered much of both teachers' and pupils' efforts futile; seven or eight years, it is said, were spent " in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek,...be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." 4 Equally profitless was the study of the universities, with its prime stress on logic and dialectic...

...explanations of the ideas they represented were given." Pestalozzi. "We do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. "Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into,...

...flats and shallows," and he makes short work of the language difficulty. " We do amiss," he says, " to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." A hard saying this for Spoudeus and his like...

...chief of English humanists, Milton himself, complains that "we do amiss to spend seven or eight years in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek...be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." "Language," he further declares, "is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be...

...thus covertly condemned. His very problem is Comenius' problem: he wants to prevent " the waste of seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek." And the line of his solution is much the same. " Because our understanding cannot in this body find...

...but England more; ... I honor the Latin, but I worship the English." 3S> Milton, in 1650, urges : " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together as much miserable Latin and Greek as u Franklin Illustrated his " proposals " by extracts from Milton,...

...Italy, but England more; ... I honor the Latin, but I worship the English." 39 Milton, in 1650, urges: " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together as much miserable Latin and Greek as H Franklin Illustrated his " proposals " by extracts from Milton,...

...poets in the world, whom yet he makes worse than they are by his ill reading ?" 1 See sees. 67, 68. a " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in...together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." — MILTON, Of Education (1644). 3 " In order...

...but England more; ... I honor the Latin, but I worship the English." 39 Milton, in 1650, urges : " We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together as much miserable Latin and Greek as " Franklin Illustrated his " proposals " by extracts from Miiton,...

...post-Reformation education (R. 211), and then points out the defects of the existing education, whereby boys "spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latine and Greek, as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." He then presents...