“ Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts ”
Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
|---|---|
| Source | Hard Times |
| Topic | life mind |
| Date | 1854 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/786/786-h/786-h.htm |
Context
“NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1905
CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS p. 3BOOK THE FIRST
SOWING CHAPTER I
THE ONE THING NEEDFUL
‘Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!’
The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous vault of a school-room, and the speaker’s square forefinger emphasized his observations by underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster’s sleeve.”
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