This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff!... THIS... IS AN EX-PARROT!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formal...ism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Home! Yes! she would see Trafalgar Square, again; and Nelson on his plinth; and Chelsea Bridge as it dissolved into the Thames at ...twilight ... and St. Paul's, the single Amazon breast of her beloved native city.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not... much more wonderful than a parrot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degener...ate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon...? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English ch...ildren come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »