Quote by Charles Dickens

Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies

Summary

This quote describes Minerva House as a finishing school for young ladies. It suggests that the girls who attended this school received a superficial education, where they were exposed to a variety of subjects but did not gain a deep or comprehensive understanding of anything specific. The quote implies that this educational approach failed to equip the girls with valuable knowledge and skills, leaving them with only a vague and limited understanding of the world.

Topics

Education

By Charles Dickens

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsk

History

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose t

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Wendell Phillips

Government

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dea

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Veda Upanishads

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful le

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

Great

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have f

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Jackson Pollock

Age

I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that s

I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

William Shakespeare

Love

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be ve

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Ha

The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.

Trust Last Words

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Health

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Law

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. The

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Value

Mentor and coach others whenever you can. Your teaching will

Mentor and coach others whenever you can. Your teaching will deepen your own learning.

Lee J. Colan, 107 Ways to Stick

Teaching