...classicist himself, in his Tractate of Education objects to the usual humanistic education with "its grammatic flats and shallows where they \ stuck unreasonably...learn a few words with lamentable \ construction"; and says of the pupil, "if he have not • studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons,...

...most easy, and those be such as are most obvious to the sense, they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions' of Logic and Metaphysics. (/) The spreading recognition of drawing аз an element of education, is one among many signs of the...

...two boys wallowing in the slough of despond. They are in the state of mind described by Milton, 'in those grammatic flats and shallows where they stuck...to learn a few words with lamentable construction.' As for their lessons, I cannot tell which is worse; but in their characters I see a difference. Poor...

...most easy, and those be such as are most obvious to the sense, they present their young unmatriculated novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of Logic and Metaphysics." And in his most robust polemical manner he sums up his condemnation by characterising the current system...

...nose or the plucking of untimely fruit." He refers to the prevalent instruction as " those grammatical flats and shallows, where they stuck unreasonably...learn a few words with lamentable construction " and. as " that assinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as all the...

...nose or the plucking of untimety fruit." He refers to the prevalent instruction as " those grammatical flats and shallows, where they stuck unreasonably...learn a few words With lamentable construction " and as " that assinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles, which is commonly set before them as all the...

...language is but coming with the most intellective abstracthe instrument conveying to us things use- tions of logic and metaphysics, so that they having but newly left those gram- asinine feast of sow thistles and brambles matic flats and shallows where they stuck which is...

...most easy (and those be such as are most obvious to the sense) they present their young unmatriculated novices, at first coming, with the most intellective...metaphysics. So that they, having but newly left those grammafic flats and shallows where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction,...

...further abhors the old error of the university instructor who casts untrained minds into the midst of "intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics, so that they having but newly left those gymnastic flats and shallows where they stuck unreasonably to learn a few words with lamentable construction,...

...most easy, and those be such as are most obvious to the sense, they present their young unmatrioulated Novices at first coming with the most intellective abstractions of Logic and Metaphysics, &o. Already the similar opinion of Vives has been quoted : ' First we must consider the easiest things,...