...character. She was PERSONAL Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss Aikin was an instance of early cultivation, but in what...a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is "To suckle fools, and chronicle small -beer." She...

...children prematurely wise is useless labor. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It...before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labor of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed....

...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children. What use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is 187 wanted. Too much is expected from precocity and too little performed." I must beg your pardon for...

...Suffolk. Speaking in depreciation of making children prematurely wise, Johnson growled, " Miss Aikin was an instance of early cultivation, but in what...a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is ' to suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.' "...

...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It...expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss l was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marrying a little Preshyterian...

...subject is her children's books, has been to quote Samuel Johnson's ridicule of them: Miss [Aikin] was an instance of early cultivation, but in what...a little Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding-school, so that all her employment now is, "To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer." She...

...wise,' says Johnson, ' is useless labor. Suppose they have more knowledge, at five or six years old, than other children ; what use can be made of it ?...before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labor of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed.'...

...has more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It wjll be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much...time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. One precocious young lady of his acquaintance ended by marrying a little Presbyterian parson who kept...

...children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed." He observed : " All knowledge is of...

...generalization that "endeavoring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour"; "Miss [Aikin] was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate? In marrying a Presbyterian parson, who keeps an infant boarding school, so that all her employment now is, 'To suckle...