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The Young Man and Civil Engineering. E-book. Formato PDF George Fillmore Swain - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
What we know as the learned professions are those in which brain work is necessary and not merely skill. Engineering, therefore, should rightly be considered as one of the learned professions and not merely an art.
How to Study. E-book. Formato PDF George Fillmore Swain - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The present paper has been suggested by a long experience in teaching, in which the writer has been continually surprised at the ignorance manifested by students in the higher classes of our technical schools and universities, or graduates from such schools, with reference to proper meth ods of study. If his experience is a reliable guide, a large majority of the graduates from such schools, as well as some teachers in them, have not acquired proper habits and methods of study, and have devoted little or no attention to the consideration of the subject, vital though it is.
Structural Engineering: Stresses, Graphical Statics and Masonry. E-book. Formato PDF George Fillmore Swain - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Choose a sensible man to a responsible place rather than a man versed in the particular art which is to be taught (or practiced), inasmuch as a method of acquiring truth is better than the truth it has already ascertained. Let your discipline liberalize the mind of a boy rather than teach him science facts), that he may have means, more than results. The Indian will give his bow for the knife with which it was made. From Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol 2, p. 67. Written in 1825 at the age of 21 (slightly amended by parentheses and italics). Books once were men. Men put themselves into books as they write them.