This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
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| 11136 | Which was the most necessary, society already formed to invent languages, or languages already invented to form society? |
| 11136 | And had he presumed to exact it on pretense of defending them, would he not have immediately received the answer in the apologue? |
| 11136 | And how often perhaps has not every one of these secrets perished with the discoverer? |
| 11136 | And which is aptest to become insupportable to those who enjoy it, a civil or a natural life? |
| 11136 | Had he a hatchet, would his hand so easily snap off from an oak so stout a branch? |
| 11136 | Had he a horse, would he with such swiftness shoot along the plain? |
| 11136 | Had he a ladder, would he run so nimbly up a tree? |
| 11136 | Had he a sling, would it dart a stone to so great a distance? |
| 11136 | How many ages perhaps revolved, before men beheld any other fire but that of the heavens? |
| 11136 | How many different accidents must have concurred to make them acquainted with the most common uses of this element? |
| 11136 | How often have they let it go out, before they knew the art of reproducing it? |
| 11136 | In fact, what is generosity, what clemency, what humanity, but pity applied to the weak, to the guilty, or to the human species in general? |
| 11136 | Is it not, because he thus returns to his primitive condition? |
| 11136 | Of what service can beauty be, where there is no love? |
| 11136 | Was a deer to be taken? |
| 11136 | Was ever any free savage known to have been so much as tempted to complain of life, and lay violent hands on himself? |
| 11136 | What anguish must he not suffer at his not being able to assist the fainting mother or the expiring infant? |
| 11136 | What equivalent could he have offered them for so fine a privilege? |
| 11136 | What horrible emotions must not such a spectator experience at the sight of an event which does not personally concern him? |
| 11136 | What progress could mankind make in the forests, scattered up and down among the other animals? |
| 11136 | What therefore is precisely the subject of this discourse? |
| 11136 | What will wit avail people who do n''t speak, or craft those who have no affairs to transact? |
| 11136 | What worse treatment can we expect from an enemy? |
| 11136 | Who traced it out for you, another might object, and what right have you to expect payment at our expense for doing that we did not oblige you to do? |
| 11136 | Why is man alone subject to dotage? |
| 30433 | And have you promised it too? |
| 30433 | And what does heavy mean? |
| 30433 | But,you say,"will there be time for learning what he ought to know when the time to use it has already come?" |
| 30433 | Ca n''t we arrange this matter with honest Robert? 30433 Mr. Robert, do you often lose your melon- seed?" |
| 30433 | What''s that to me? 30433 Yonder is a very tall cherry- tree; how can we manage to get some cherries? |
| 30433 | [ 8] For what would that be but teaching him to deny it? 30433 A good meal ought never to be given as a reward; but why should it not sometimes be the result of the pains taken to secure it? 30433 After some moments of silence I said to him, with a troubled air,My dear Émile, what shall we do to get away from here?" |
| 30433 | All these are well enough; but have we nothing but arms and legs? |
| 30433 | Always complaining, always refractory, always angry, they spent the time in crying and fretting; were these creatures happy? |
| 30433 | And do you not think that such an idea, given at the appropriate time, will have as good an effect as the most tiresome sermon on morals? |
| 30433 | And if we would have a man exempt from all human misfortunes, would it not estrange him from humanity? |
| 30433 | And lastly, how can he be moved by the beautiful panorama of nature, if he does not know by whose tender care it has been adorned? |
| 30433 | And what must he think of this silence, in one so fond of talking? |
| 30433 | And where can we seek for this difference of cause, unless it be in the physical condition of the two individuals? |
| 30433 | Are not his work, his play, his pleasure, his pain, in your hands, whether he knows it or not? |
| 30433 | Are the blows of fate so uncommon that you can expect to escape them? |
| 30433 | Are these the counsels of a master? |
| 30433 | Aristotle? |
| 30433 | As soon as they can utter their complaints in words, why should they cry, unless the suffering is too keen to be expressed by words? |
| 30433 | Buffon? |
| 30433 | But do you ask how these are to be remedied? |
| 30433 | But how can we guard our pupil against such accidents? |
| 30433 | But the south? |
| 30433 | But you, sir, must have known the nature of his fault; why did you allow him to commit such a fault? |
| 30433 | By what astonishing process has this useful and agreeable art become so irksome to them? |
| 30433 | Can we conceive of any creature''s being truly happy outside of what belongs to its own peculiar nature? |
| 30433 | Could we see where it is just as well from this forest? |
| 30433 | Do not ask,"Is not this a fine opportunity for the pedagogue''s moral discourse?" |
| 30433 | Do we imagine that the true understanding of events can be separated from that of their causes and effects? |
| 30433 | Do you know, you fathers, the moment when death awaits your children? |
| 30433 | Do you not see that in thinking to correct her you destroy her work and counteract the effect of all her cares? |
| 30433 | Do you not, so far as he is concerned, control everything around him? |
| 30433 | Do you tell me that the first sounds they make are cries? |
| 30433 | Do you then wish him to preserve his original form? |
| 30433 | Do you think I am better off than you, or that I would mind crying too, if crying would do for my breakfast? |
| 30433 | Do you think a youth who has thus attained his fifteenth year has lost the years that have gone before? |
| 30433 | Do you think this season of free action will be time lost to him? |
| 30433 | For after all, what do they teach their pupils? |
| 30433 | For who can hope to direct entirely the speech and conduct of all who surround a child? |
| 30433 | For who does not do good? |
| 30433 | From this, the true idea, will he not early feel repugnance at giving way to excessive passion, which he regards as a disease? |
| 30433 | Has our eye straightened the stick? |
| 30433 | Has she given them an imposing air, a stern eye, a harsh and threatening voice, so that they may inspire fear? |
| 30433 | Has the motion we gave the water been enough thus to break, to soften, and to melt the stick? |
| 30433 | Have we not eyes and ears as well? |
| 30433 | Have you not power to influence him as you please? |
| 30433 | Having nothing free but the voice, why should they not use it in complaints? |
| 30433 | He happy? |
| 30433 | He will want everything he sees, and without being God himself how can you content him? |
| 30433 | He would like to ask again,"What is the use of finding out where the east is?" |
| 30433 | How can he see with transport the rise of so beautiful a day, unless imagination can paint all the transports with which it may be filled? |
| 30433 | How can that be so?" |
| 30433 | How can the perfume of flowers, the cooling vapor of the dew, the sinking of his footstep in the soft and pleasant turf, enchant his senses? |
| 30433 | How can the singing of birds delight him, while the accents of love and pleasure are yet unknown? |
| 30433 | How can we be so blind as to call fables moral lessons for children? |
| 30433 | How can we find that? |
| 30433 | How could the same powerlessness, joined to the same passions, produce such different effects in the two ages, if the primary cause were not changed? |
| 30433 | How often have we seen unhappy creatures disgusted with life because of some dreadful and incurable malady? |
| 30433 | I grant it; but what are these men but children spoiled by their education? |
| 30433 | I recollect seeing somewhere a text- book on geography which began thus:"What is the world? |
| 30433 | I want to put up a swing between those two trees; would four yards of rope be enough for it? |
| 30433 | I wonder if we could find out where it is without seeing it? |
| 30433 | If he could choose between being my pupil or yours, do you think he would hesitate a moment? |
| 30433 | If he thinks you do not know he will say to himself,"Why should I disclose my fault?" |
| 30433 | If in men''s actions you see only purely external and physical changes, what do you learn from history? |
| 30433 | If in my absence some anonymous mischief has been done, I will beware of accusing Émile, or of asking"Was it you? |
| 30433 | In learning the things represented, would they not also learn the signs? |
| 30433 | In order to have two, he must be able to compare ideas; and how can he do this when he is scarcely able to grasp them? |
| 30433 | In the prolonged torrent of words with which you incessantly weary them, do you think there are none they may misunderstand? |
| 30433 | Indeed, what use would he have at that age for the power to reason? |
| 30433 | Is it nothing to skip, to play, to run about all day long? |
| 30433 | Is not the helpless, unknowing child at your mercy? |
| 30433 | Is not this more than enough to illustrate the fact and to find out the refraction? |
| 30433 | Is there anything more absurd than the pains we take in teaching them to walk? |
| 30433 | Let me see your watch; what time is it? |
| 30433 | Looking at Émile, who is watching my motions, I say to him,"Why did the stone fall?" |
| 30433 | May I venture to state here the greatest, the most important, the most useful rule in all education? |
| 30433 | Must not such a cruel constraint have an influence upon their temper as well as upon their constitution? |
| 30433 | Nature has made children to be loved and helped; has she made them to be obeyed and feared? |
| 30433 | Now if you have the appliances, and know just how to use them, are you not master of the operation? |
| 30433 | Of what use is it to write on their minds a catalogue of signs that represent nothing to them? |
| 30433 | Of what use would these last be to him, since a child is not yet an active member of society? |
| 30433 | Otherwise, what motive will induce them to learn it? |
| 30433 | Pliny? |
| 30433 | Shall I make your child unhappy if I expose him only to those inconveniences he is perfectly willing to endure? |
| 30433 | Shall we never learn to put ourselves in the child''s place? |
| 30433 | Since with years of reason civil bondage[5] begins, why anticipate it by slavery at home? |
| 30433 | Then they imagine they are speaking Latin, and who is there to contradict them? |
| 30433 | There is a very wide brook; how can we cross it? |
| 30433 | They all scarcely know one another; how then should they love one another? |
| 30433 | They can scarcely move themselves at all; how can they lame themselves? |
| 30433 | They say that in the other house our room will be twenty- five feet square; do you think that will suit us? |
| 30433 | True; but do you not see that, as soon as the mind has attained to ideas, all judgment is reasoning? |
| 30433 | Twelve o''clock? |
| 30433 | We are very hungry; which of those two villages yonder can we reach soonest, and have our dinner?" |
| 30433 | We have not yet brought ourselves to the point of swaddling puppies or kittens; do we see that any inconvenience results to them from this negligence? |
| 30433 | We want to throw a line from our windows and catch some fish in the moat around the house; how many fathoms long ought the line to be? |
| 30433 | We were noticing the position of the forest north of Montmorency, when he interrupted me with the eager question,"What is the use of knowing that?" |
| 30433 | Were they of less account when they reached manhood? |
| 30433 | What child of twelve does not know all you are going to teach yours, and all that his masters have taught him besides?" |
| 30433 | What does it matter to me whether you do what I require or not? |
| 30433 | What had he done to us that we should try to throw discredit on his performances and take away his livelihood? |
| 30433 | What has become of my labor, the sweet reward of all my care and toil? |
| 30433 | What has he to hide from you? |
| 30433 | What higher wisdom is there for you than humanity? |
| 30433 | What is so wonderful in the art of attracting a wax duck, that the honor should be worth the price of an honest man''s living? |
| 30433 | What is this object? |
| 30433 | What observer can at the first glance seize upon the child''s peculiar traits? |
| 30433 | What results from this? |
| 30433 | What wonderful book is this? |
| 30433 | What would you think of a man who, in order to use his whole life to the best advantage, would not sleep? |
| 30433 | Whence arises this unreasonable custom of swaddling children? |
| 30433 | Whence arises this weakness of ours but from the inequality between our desires and the strength we have for fulfilling them? |
| 30433 | Who among us has not at times looked back with regret to the age when a smile was continually on our lips, when the soul was always at peace? |
| 30433 | Who assures you that you spare him anything when you deal him afflictions with so lavish a hand? |
| 30433 | Who can insure their being always at hand when we need them? |
| 30433 | Who can tell what will become of you then? |
| 30433 | Who does not remember their forcible, pithy sayings? |
| 30433 | Who has robbed me of my own? |
| 30433 | Who has taken my beans away from me? |
| 30433 | Who knows how many children die on account of the extravagant prudence of a father or of a teacher? |
| 30433 | Who supposes that a child thus ruled by anger, a prey to furious passions, can ever be happy? |
| 30433 | Who, then, shall educate my child? |
| 30433 | Why did n''t you think of this capital plan before?" |
| 30433 | Why do you cause him more unhappiness than he can bear, when you are not sure that the future will compensate him for these present evils? |
| 30433 | Why do you give them the useless trouble of learning them twice? |
| 30433 | Why do you oppose her? |
| 30433 | Why is there this difference? |
| 30433 | Why is this? |
| 30433 | Why is this? |
| 30433 | Why should a child educated naturally and in perfect freedom, tell a falsehood? |
| 30433 | Why should he not tell you everything as frankly as to his little playmate? |
| 30433 | Why should they consider crying a fault, when they find that it avails so much? |
| 30433 | Why should we rob these little innocent creatures of the enjoyment of a time so brief, so transient, of a boon so precious, which they can not misuse? |
| 30433 | Why then do you complain? |
| 30433 | Why waste time in instructions which always come of their own accord, and cost neither care nor trouble? |
| 30433 | Why will you fill with bitterness and sorrow these fleeting years which can no more return to them than to you? |
| 30433 | Why would you injure the studies suitable to him at his age by giving him those of an age he may never attain? |
| 30433 | Why, instead of using all these representations, do you not begin by showing him the object itself, so as to let him know what you are talking of? |
| 30433 | Will it be larger than this? |
| 30433 | Will the ladder in the barn do? |
| 30433 | Would one of the planks in the yard be long enough? |
| 30433 | Would you recall every one to his highest duties? |
| 30433 | [ 13] But what do we mean by facts? |
| 30433 | [ 23] Was it not just that, as a reward, he was allowed to devour the beast that had done its best to devour him? |
| 30433 | and are they of no use while the others are employed? |
| 30433 | and that the historic and the moral are so far asunder that the one can be understood without the other? |
| 30433 | is it nothing to be happy? |
| 30433 | must we always use machines? |