I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.
Interpretation
The quote compares a child's excitement for cakes to a reader's enthusiasm for books, highlighting the joy and anticipation that books can bring.
In this quote, Elizabeth Gaskell expresses the profound delight and curiosity that books inspire, akin to a child's eager anticipation of enjoying a sweet treat. She captures the essence of reading as an enchanting experience, filled with the promise of pleasure and discovery, much like the intrinsic joy found in enjoying a favorite dessert.
In practice
A teacher could use this quote to inspire students to foster a love for reading.
Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character.
It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.
Mr. Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. But he never went near her himself; he did not look at her. Only, he knew what she was doing β or not doing β better than anyone else in the room. Margaret was so unconscious of herself, and so much amused by watching other people, that she never thought whether she was left unnoticed or not.
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.
A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.
Consequently, the only thing I learned in school was typing. In the old days, people like me who don't have college degrees had a hard time thriving in society. But today, the ability to learn on your own or from your peers has become really easy. I think this change is leading to a fundamental disruption in education. Independent and lifelong learning are really starting to peak - there is an inflection point coming around how people learn.
The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
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