...illusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of the author is as broad as the world ... Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable...their indispensable office — to teach elements. They can only highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far...

...intuition, and aim much more t» suggest than to describe [at suggesting than at describing]. — EMERSON. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but tt create [at drilling, but at creating]. — EMERSON. So far from aiming to be mistress of Europe,...

...— cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame." And more explicitly still, he says: "Colleges have their indispensable office, — to teach elements....us when they aim not to drill, but to create." When Emerson wrote this passage, the spirit of research, or discovery, or creation had not yet breathed...

...the oracle ; — • all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's. Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable...wise man. History and exact science he must learn by aborious reading. Colleges, in like manner, have their ndispensable office, — to teach elements....

...educational theories. Recalling the cast-iron curriculum of his youth, he now protested that colleges can only highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from afar every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls (Works, Vol. I, p. 93). Appealing to Pestalozzi...

...the oracle, — and all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakspeare's. Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable...Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable off1ce, — to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to...

...and Teaching Literature EWA STACHNIAK AND EWA CHRZANOWSKA-KARPINSKA Wroclaw University Colleges . . . have their indispensable office,— to teach elements....serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create . . . — RW Emerson, The American Scholar At Polish universities, the accepted practice in English...

...said in "The American Scholar," there's creative reading as well as creative writing, and colleges "can only highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create." (I have sat in your classroom, you'll remember, and it wasn't "drill" that you were aiming at.) Who...

...utterances of the oracle;—all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato's and Shakespeare's. Of course there is a portion of reading quite indispensable...Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,—to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us when they aim not to drill, but to create;...

...allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world . . . there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History . . . he must learn by laborious reading" (W, 1: 92-3). In what follows, I want to offer a reading...