Studies

Examples

• It may be questioned whether some of the present pedagogical interest in the matter of values of studies is not either excessive or else too narrow. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He studies her at his leisure, not speaking for a time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This statement needs to be rendered more specific by connecting it with the materials of school instruction, the studies which make up the curriculum. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Then, havi ng inherited land in Berwickshire, he studied husbandry in Norfolk and took interest in the surface of the land and water-courses; later he pursued these studies in Flanders. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A wealth of evidence could be adduced to support this from the studies of dreams and fantasies made by the Freudian school of psychologists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As mere school studies, their acquisition has only a technical worth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We cannot establish a hierarchy of values among studies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The artist studies the progress of his own attempts to see what succeeds and what fails. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• My standing in that branch of studies had been near the foot of the class. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The history of science studies the past for the sake of the future. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Two great English noblemen became his allies in scientific studies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Kitty is slight and delicate; and Mary studies so much, that her hours of repose should not be broken in on. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• My father directed our studies, and my mother partook of our enjoyments. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Now Mr. Upton was a very able mathematician, who, after he finished his studies at Princeton, went to Germany and got his final gloss under that great master, Helmholtz. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But the owners of Lowick apparently had not been travellers, and Mr. Casaubon's studies of the past were not carried on by means of such aids. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Ben is finishing his studies at college, and continues to behave as well as when you knew him, so that I still think he will make you a good son. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Plato had an immediate influence in stimulating m athematical studies, and has been called a maker of mathematicians. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• To use the modern phraseology, naturalistic studies are indispensable, but they are in the interests of humanistic and ideal ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I hope soon to have more leisure, and to spend a part of it in those studies that are much more agreeable to me than political operations. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• These influences have resulted in splitting up the subject matter of education into separate studies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Palissy’s studies in natural history helped him when he came to decorate his pottery. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Two factors conspire in the later period of ancient life, however, to exalt literary and humanistic studies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• However, I give you joy, my dear—and I hope you may now turn all your ological studies to good account, I am sure I do! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• On one hand, it has screened and protected traditional studies and methods of teaching from intelligent criticism and needed revisions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• She allotted a certain portion of her time for her various studies, and a certain portion for doing anything Miss Ainley might direct her to do. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The Valuation of Studies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• No age has produced such a multitude of elaborate studies, and any selection was, of course, a limiting one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• My dear Sir, you must begin your studies entirely anew. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Not you, Casaubon; you stick to your studies; but my best ideas get undermost--out of use, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He is engaged in his military studies, I imagine, Robert Jordan thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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