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Structural Engineering (Classic Reprint): Stresses, Graphical Statics and Masonry
Excerpt from Structural Engineering
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.
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.
539 pages, Paperback
First published September 27, 2015
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