In order that knowledge should be a delight, I submit that knowledge should be remembered. A certain man George Eliot describes, who had a sense of having had a liberal education until he tried to remember something! The culture of some people seems to consist in having heard a large number of proper names. Oh, yes, I've heard of him—the rest a blank. In our day, mental training has neglected the training of the memory. I even urge a considerable amount of old-fashioned memorizing. Lay up for yourselves treasure: possess for your own a sonnet of Shakespeare, a poem of Wordsworth, a passage of Bacon. Lay up also a good store of facts, such facts as will make the reading of the daily paper profitable. There is no surer test of your outfit of information. Shall we say that an educated person should be able to spell, pronounce, and reasonably explain about two thousand proper nouns?

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Format :Kitap
Barkod :9786257923736
Yayın Tarihi :2021-03-24
Yayın Dili :İngilizce
Baskı Sayısı :1.Baskı
Sayfa Sayısı :35
Kapak :Karton
Kağıt :Kitap kağıdı
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Yazar   : Helen Dawes Brown
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