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  • I would rather talk to you — he is so pedagogical.†   (source)
  • So schools date from the Middle Ages, and pedagogy from the Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • It is no accident that the science of pedagogy was founded during the Enlightenment.†   (source)
  • The study of Greek humanism also had a pedagogical aim.†   (source)
  • One, I was a proper snob in college, as only an old Wise Child alumnus and future lifetime English-major can be, and I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.†   (source)
  • A bright commercial calendar hung on the flaking whitewash -a dark-skinned mestizo girl in a bathing-dress advertised some gaseous water; somebody had pencilled in a neat pedagogic hand a facile and over-confident statement about man having nothing to lose but his chains.†   (source)
  • Virtue is but the pedagogical prelude to the culminating insight, which goes beyond all pairs of opposites.†   (source)
  • A quadrangle of postRevolutionary buildings of weathered brick bounded the upper end: other newer buildings, in the modern bad manner (the Pedagogic NeoGreeky), were scattered around beyond the central design: beyond, there was a thickly forested wilderness.†   (source)
  • 29 But there has been also, in numerous religious traditions, a consciously controlled pedagogical utilization of this archetypal image for the purpose of the purging, balancing, and initiation of the mind into the nature of the visible world.†   (source)
  • For the ogre aspect of the father is a reflex of the victim's own ego—derived from the sensational nursery scene that has been left behind, but projected before; and the fixating idolatry of that pedagogical nonthing is itself the fault that keeps one steeped in a sense of sin, sealing the potentially adult spirit from a better balanced, more realistic view of the father, and therewith of the world.†   (source)
  • Their entertaining myths transport the mind and spirit, not up to, but past them, into the yonder void; from which perspective the more heavily freightedtheological dogmas then appear to have been only pedagogical lures: their function, to cart the unadroit intellect away from its concrete clutter of facts and events to a comparatively rarefied zone, where, as a final boon, all existence—whether heavenly, earthly, or infernal—may at last be seen transmuted into the semblance of a…†   (source)
  • With her little, pedagogic sectarianism she remembered that Catholics do not do this thing.†   (source)
  • And of course, that's one of the connections you've taught me about—between humanism and pedagogy.†   (source)
  • So that is what is called hermetic pedagogy.†   (source)
  • And what if humanistic pedagogy were to learn of this opportunity?†   (source)
  • Have we roused civilization's pedagogic policeman to the point of drawing his sword?†   (source)
  • Except that's not the whole thing—but merely a beginning, pedagogically speaking.†   (source)
  • We humanists all have a pedagogic streak.†   (source)
  • That's your true pedagogue—he himself said not long ago that he had a pedagogic streak.†   (source)
  • And philology, which is usually tied up with some pedagogic profession?†   (source)
  • Judge Milford's pedagogical scheme was to let the children read whatever they pleased, and in his brown library Carol absorbed Balzac and Rabelais and Thoreau and Max Muller.†   (source)
  • Why not be revenged on society by shaping his future domesticities loosely, instead of kissing the pedagogic rod of convention in this ensnaring manner?†   (source)
  • You remarked that I speak maliciously, but if I have done so, then it was not without a pedagogic purpose.†   (source)
  • He spoke with scorn of Cambridge where he had taken his degree and with horror of the life which awaited him when, having taken his doctorate in Heidelberg, he must return to England and a pedagogic career.†   (source)
  • Lawson had the pedagogic instinct; whenever he found anything out he was eager to impart it; and because he taught with delight he talked with profit.†   (source)
  • He talked of pedagogics, and this was natural enough; but he had much to say of modern theories in Germany which they had never heard of and received with misgiving.†   (source)
  • Gentlemen, the historical connection between humanism and pedagogy only proves the psychological basis of that connection.†   (source)
  • And then it had been very interesting to hear certain ideas on pedagogy, about which he probably would never have known a thing without Naphta.†   (source)
  • In a word—though you probably are not aware that there is such a thing as alchemistic, hermetic pedagogy—an enhancement, a transubstantiation to something higher, if you understand what I mean.†   (source)
  • It arose from an intellectual tradition diametrically opposed to the one represented by Herr Settembrini's pedagogy, but all the same one quite worthy of the designation "placet experiri"—or so it seemed to Hans Castorp.†   (source)
  • The lapis philosophorum, which is the male-female product of sulfur and mercury—the res bina, the bisexual prima materia—was nothing more and nothing less than the principle of that enhancement, the application of external influences to force matter upward: magical pedagogy if you will.†   (source)
  • But at the' same time it is a great and divine glory, a miraculous image of organic life, a holy miracle of form and beauty, and love of it, of the human body, is likewise an extremely humanistic affair and an educating force greater than all the pedagogy in the world!†   (source)
  • All institutions dedicated to genuine education have always known that there can be only one central truth in any pedagogy, and that is: absolute authority and an ironclad bond—discipline and sacrifice, renunciation of the ego and coercion of the personality.†   (source)
  • And as for the rest of his charge, Herr Lodovico could be sure that he, Naphta, pursued his modicum of bourgeois activity, to which the former had been kind enough to allude, with all due reservatio mentalis and that he recognized a certain irony in having found a niche in an educational institution devoted to classical rhetoric, a pedagogy whose life span even the most sanguine would estimate only in decades.†   (source)
  • And in short, Herr Settembrini's unrelenting pedagogy could have packed its bags when confronted with those faces in the "violent ward," on which a shudder of religious awe would have had a more humanizing effect than the sort of arrogant moralizing about reason with which this Most Worthy Knight of the Sun and Vicar of Solomon here had chosen to combat madness.†   (source)
  • A pedagogic method that regards itself as a daughter of the Enlightenment and employs educational methods based on criticism, on the liberation and nursing of the ego, on the breaking down of ordained living patterns—such a pedagogy may still achieve moments of rhetorical success, but for those who know and understand, it is, beyond all doubt, sublimely backward.†   (source)
  • …of this late arrival, just as it was resolved in Hans Castorp's own mind as he lay on his balcony and admitted that those two hyperarticulate mentors, tugging at both sides of his soul, simply shrank beside Pieter Peeperkorn, until he was inclined to call them the same name the Dutchman had called him in a fit of drunken royal banter—"little chatterboxes"—and decided it was a piece of good luck that hermetic pedagogy had also brought him into contact with such a manifest personality.†   (source)
  • "Well roared, lion," Hans Castorp could not help thinking, as he usually did when Herr Settembrini uttered something pedagogic.†   (source)
  • And if Herr Settembrini followed this with a pause, it was clear that he did so solely out of pedagogic circumspection.†   (source)
  • And youth being what it is, Hans Castorp felt all the more entertained because he was now romping in pedagogically forbidden territory.†   (source)
  • Personality, so it seemed, was not pedagogic—and yet, what an opportunity it presented for a tourist thirsty for knowledge.†   (source)
  • But was not the annoyance she felt in this regard somehow reminiscent of her relationship to Settembrini, young Hans Castorp's pedagogic friend?†   (source)
  • But he was fairly sure that he did not miss out on any that required the presence of a pedagogic object to ignite a meaningful colloquy.†   (source)
  • That suited his pedagogic interests.†   (source)
  • But perhaps it was this personality trait that made him such a suitable object for pedagogic rivalry.†   (source)
  • I enjoy exchanging views with young people, am perhaps not totally lacking in my own pedagogic tradition.†   (source)
  • There came a day when Herr Settembrini directly confronted his pupil, and so betrayed his own pedagogic uneasiness.†   (source)
  • A problem child, that's certainly what I've been for you and your pedagogic streak—you spoke about that the very first day.†   (source)
  • ALTHOUGH SOME of Herr Settembrini's innuendoes had annoyed Hans Castorp, there was no reason he should have been amazed by them—nor did he have any right to accuse the humanist of pedagogic spying.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp had indeed done that on several previous occasions, if only to preserve some kind of social equality—but the humanist had never before spoken with such pedagogic urgency.†   (source)
  • But irrational love is a mark of genius, because death, you see, is the principle of genius, the res bina, the lapis philosophorum, and it is also the pedagogic principle.†   (source)
  • He was quietly confident that they required a pedagogic object and would rather put up with unwelcome society than entirely forfeit the chance to thrash out their differences before him.†   (source)
  • And I like you better, too, although he's almost always right when you two argue and scuffle pedagogically for my poor soul, like God and the Devil struggling over a man in the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • The political-pedagogic nature of Catholicism, he added, was apparent in the Jesuit order, which had always regarded education and statecraft as its domains.†   (source)
  • For the evening when I cast aside certain pedagogic fetters, of which we were just speaking, and approached her—under a pretense suggested to me by a past experience—was an evening of masks and disguises.†   (source)
  • With him, one can speak only of prejudices on a grand and therefore impersonal scale, of general pedagogic principles, upon which, I admit, given my status as a 'problem child of life,' Herr Settembrini has often insisted—but that would lead us too far afield.†   (source)
  • The three Berghof residents turned homeward, and the two pedagogic rivals were forced to enter their little house, the one climbing to his silken cell, the other to his humanist's garret with its lectern and water carafe.†   (source)
  • Herr Settembrini had characterized the phenomenon of backsliding as a "sickness"—and from his pedagogic viewpoint, even the worldview, the intellectual epoch, toward which one "slid back" might appear "sick" as well.†   (source)
  • And although this chapter of our story might, like an earlier one, bear the title "Someone Else," no one need worry that yet another instigator of intellectual and pedagogic confusion has now made an appearance.†   (source)
  • The humanist had been displeased by their first meeting, had obviously tried to thwart it and pedagogically prevent the young people—himself in particular, the cunning problem child noted—from making Naphta's acquaintance, even though he personally associated and argued with him.†   (source)
  • And yet it would doubtless be— should I ascribe it to the influence, shall we say, to the pedagogic principles of Signor Settembrini that in regard to your own chivalrous impulses, you have—I beg you, please understand me when I say …†   (source)
  • In your goody-goody concern for the scholastic state of ideas proclaimed by Jacobin revolution, you see some sort of pedagogic crime in my method of letting youth doubt, of casting categories to the winds, and of robbing ideas of their academic dignity.†   (source)
  • There sat death, a humanistic rhetorician clad in a blue coat; and when you focused on this philanthropic and pedagogic god of literature, what you saw crouching there had a monkey face, with the symbols of night and sorcery on its brow.†   (source)
  • Our Master of the Lodge"—he pointed at Settembrini—"may wish to claim that all pedagogic proclivities, even the very calling itself, belong to bourgeois humanism—but one must take issue with him there.†   (source)
  • Does anyone believe that our ordinary hero, after a certain number of years of hermetic and pedagogic enhancement, had penetrated deeply enough into the life of the intellect and the spirit for him to be conscious of the "significance" of this object and his love for it?†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp knew nothing at all about it—or rather, he did not know that Joachim knew; for as a man who had kicked over the traces, as a pedagogic problem child of life, he himself knew what that something was only too well.†   (source)
  • …Joachim to go on ahead, that he was just going to check quickly on the case in room 50; and each time he felt his whole being expand with a joy rooted in a sense of helpfulness and quiet importance, but intermingled with a certain jaunty delight in the spotless Christian impression his good deeds made—an impression so devout, caring, and praiseworthy, in fact, that no serious objections whatever could be raised against it, either from a military or a humanistic-pedagogic standpoint.†   (source)
  • And in considering that inner aspect, he also thought of Settembrini, the pedagogic organ-grinder, whose father had come into the world in Greece and who explained love for that sublime image to be a matter of politics, rebellion, and eloquence, whereby the citizen's pike was consecrated on the altar of humanity; he thought, too, of Comrade Krokowski and what the two of them had been doing in his darkened suite for some time now, thought of the two sides of analysis and how it was not…†   (source)
  • They had walked together all the way to the Berghof; and then the three who lived there accompanied the other two back to their little house, where they all stood outside in the snow for a long time while Naphta and Settembrini continued their argument—for pedagogic purposes, as Hans Castorp well knew, in order to shape the impressionable minds of youth in search of light.†   (source)
  • But it: was your story at last, and since it happened to you, there surely must have been something to you; and we do not deny that in the course of telling it, we have taken a certain pedagogic liking to you, might be tempted gently to dab the corner of an eye with one fingertip at the thought that we shall neither see you nor hear from you in the future.†   (source)
  • The two duelers passed over the remark, but Hans Castorp had, as we noted, been keeping a worried eye on his cousin, and now departed with him in the middle of a rebuttal, leaving it to the remaining audience, consisting of Ferge and Wehsal, to provide sufficient pedagogic impetus for a continuation of the argument.†   (source)
  • …was a gentle malice that was hard to define, but which she, with a woman's heightened awareness, surely had to feel drifting toward her from both adversaries, Settembrini and Naphta (and indeed her Mardi Gras cavalier felt it as well), and which had its origin in their relationship to Hans Castorp: the pedagogue's inherent ill will toward women as a disruptive and distracting element, a silent and primal hostility that united the two men by abrogating their intense pedagogic rivalry.†   (source)
  • And as for pedagogics, the conception of human dignity that sought to ban corporal punishment had its roots, to hear Naphta tell it, in the liberal individualism of the era of bourgeois humanism, in the Enlightenment's absolutism of the ego, which was about to atrophy and be replaced by a wave of newer, less namby-pamby social concepts, ideas of submission and obedience, of bridles and bonds, and since such things were not to be had without holy cruelty, flogging would thus be regarded…†   (source)
  • A pedagogic method that regards itself as a daughter of the Enlightenment and employs educational methods based on criticism, on the liberation and nursing of the ego, on the breaking down of ordained living patterns—such a pedagogy may still achieve moments of rhetorical success, but for those who know and understand, it is, beyond all doubt, sublimely backward.†   (source)
  • But filled with courage and sympathy, he had paid no more attention to that call at his back than he had to the words that rang out behind him as he took certain steps on the evening of Mardi Gras: "Eh, ingegnere, un po' di ragione, sal" "Ah, my pedagogic Satana, with your ragione and ribellione," he thought, "I like you.†   (source)
  • We can only be grateful to a man like Herr Settembrini for characterizing metaphysics as "evil" as he once did when speaking, with his usual pedagogic decisiveness, to the young man with whose fate we are concerned and whom on one occasion he very aptly called a "problem child of life " And we can best honor the memory of a young man, who though departed is still dear to us, by saying that the critical principle can and must have only one meaning, purpose, and goal: the idea of duty,…†   (source)
  • His Mediterranean friend and mentor had constantly tried to rectify this situation somewhat and made a point of keeping his pedagogic problem child roughly informed about events down below; but he had not been given much of a hearing by his pupil, who while "playing king" had let his mind turn the shadows of such things into one dream or another, but had never paid any attention to the things themselves, primarily out of an arrogant preference for seeing shadows as things, and things…†   (source)
  • Yet even though Hans Castorp was prepared, as he had been all along, to lend him an ear, to consider his lectures worth listening to— quite noncommittally—and to let himself be pedagogically influenced, that in no way meant that, on the basis of a strictly educational point of view, he should desist from his enterprise, which still seemed to have an important impact, to be beneficial in some vague way—despite Madame Gerngross and her talk about a "nice little fleert," despite the…†   (source)
  • He did not paralyze the nerve of antithesis with confusion and obstructionism the way Naphta did; he was not ambiguous like him, or if so, then in an entirely contrary, positive fashion—he was the staggering mystery that went not only beyond mere stupidity and cleverness, but also beyond so many of the other opposites that Settembrini and Naphta conjured up to create high tension for. pedagogic purposes.†   (source)
  • It was not surprising that Herr Settembrini, invoking the dignity of man in sterling words, spoke out against the brutal practice, both from a pedagogic and juridical point of view; nor was it any more surprising, though perhaps it was astounding simply because of the gloomy brazenness of his words, that Naphta spoke out in favor of the bastinado.†   (source)
  • But the thing was, as he told Joachim one day, you began with annoyance and distaste, and suddenly "something quite different comes up" that "has nothing whatever to do with forming opinions" and then it was all over with such rigor—and suddenly you were no longer receptive to pedagogic influences of the republican and eloquent sort.†   (source)
  • First, he had the feeling that Herr Settembrini had dropped by in order to keep him and Joachim—or, actually, just him—from being left alone with ugly little Naphta and to provide a pedagogic counterweight by his presence; second, it was quite evident that he had no objection to using the occasion to leave his lodgings in the attic for a while, exchanging them for Naphta's silk-adorned room and a properly served tea.†   (source)
  • But ever since the Mardi Gras party and Settembrini's heated departure from the music room, a coolness had reigned between Hans Castorp and the Italian, the result both of the former's bad conscience and the latter's deep pedagogic indignation, so that they avoided one another and had not exchanged a single word for weeks now.†   (source)
  • At this audacious declaration, the archdeacon's visage assumed a thoroughly pedagogical and paternal expression.†   (source)
  • [35] To [Pg019] these pedagogical examples must be added that of Baedeker, of guide-book celebrity.†   (source)
  • However, a good many of the vowels of the early days have [Pg237] succumbed to pedagogy.†   (source)
  • "[68] It is a sort of by-product of the pedagogical war upon "it is /me/."†   (source)
  • Lastly at the head of the board was the young poet who found a refuge from his labours of pedagogy and metaphysical inquisition in the convivial atmosphere of Socratic discussion, while to right and left of him were accommodated the flippant prognosticator, fresh from the hippodrome, and that vigilant wanderer, soiled by the dust of travel and combat and stained by the mire of an indelible dishonour, but from whose steadfast and constant heart no lure or peril or threat or degradation…†   (source)
  • …Thief of Time) composed during schoolyears, seemed to him to contain in itself and in conjunction with the personal equation certain possibilities of financial, social, personal and sexual success, whether specially collected and selected as model pedagogic themes (of cent per cent merit) for the use of preparatory and junior grade students or contributed in printed form, following the precedent of Philip Beaufoy or Doctor Dick or Heblon's Studies in Blue, to a publication of certified…†   (source)
  • It shows a sonority and a stateliness that you must go to the Latin of the Golden Age to match; its "highly charged and heavy-shotted" periods, in Matthew Arnold's phrase, serve admirably the obscurantist purposes of American pedagogy and of English parliamentary oratory and leader-writing; it is something for the literary artists of both countries to prove their skill upon by flouting it.†   (source)
  • /[43] Like W. L. George, this Englishman failed in his attempt to write correct American despite his fine pedagogical passion.†   (source)
  • But no one familiar with the habits of the pedagogical mind need be told that its interior pull is against even such mild and obvious reforms.†   (source)
  • "I have /come/" and "I have /came/" seem to be almost equally [Pg206] favored, with the former supported by pedagogical admonition and the latter by the spirit of the language.†   (source)
  • The prevailing American pronunciation, despite incessant pedagogical counterblasts, puts the accent on the penult, whereas the English pronunciation stresses the second syllable.†   (source)
  • But in matters of learning he was orthodox to the point of hunkerousness, and the strange locutions that [Pg038] he encountered on all sides aroused his pedagogic ire.†   (source)
  • [8] This formidable work was almost purely synthetical: it began with a long series of definitions, wholly unintelligible to a child, and proceeded into a maddening maze of pedagogical distinctions, puzzling even to an adult.†   (source)
  • Those in the use of the verb drop from 57 per cent of the total to 52 per cent, but the double negatives remain at 7 per cent and the errors in the case of pronouns at 11 per cent. In the written work of grades VI and VII, however, certain changes appear, no doubt because of the special pedagogical effort against the more salient oral errors.†   (source)
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