 You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." The desirability of a man depends even more on his personality than on the training he has had. 5. Does his academic training need only the technical training of your road to make him the new business man?  Pamphlets on Commercial Education - Halaman 1101900Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1848 - 326 halaman
...Ned, "is, as to one's occupation — " "It is the man who elevates the occupation," said Uncle John. "It is an old saying, that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear — and if you are a sow's ear, you must take the consequences." " But if you are a... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1913 - 186 halaman
...businessf I think he does. * 4. Is he desired as a new employee, or are you indifferent to his] coming f It is an old saying that "You can't make a silk purse...training of your road to make him the new business mant I would rather have a broadly educated man, unfamiliar with technique of any trade or business,... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1913 - 184 halaman
...business? I think he does. 4. Is he desired as a new employee, or are you indifferent to hi4 coming? It is an old saying that "You can't make a silk purse...training of your road to make him the new business man? I would rather have a broadly educated man, unfamiliar with technique of any trade or business,... | |
 | National Association of Secondary School Principals (U.S.) - 1917 - 840 halaman
...intelligence and prognosis tests? Teachers in the past have told us in extenuation of their failures that "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." The great trouble has been that we have never been sure which was the sow's ear. Now that we are able to... | |
 | National Association of Secondary School Principals (U.S.) - 1921 - 588 halaman
...intelligence and prognosis tests? Teachers in the past have told us in extenuation of their failures that "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." The great trouble has been that we have never been sure which was the sow's ear. Now that we are able to... | |
 | Christian de Duve - 2002 - 360 halaman
...laws of the universe — which is certainly not what Monod had in mind. An old English aphorism says that "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." The French have a more poetic — and Gallic — way of putting this: "The most beautiful girl in the world... | |
 | W. James Popham - 2003 - 185 halaman
...assess students' mastery of too many curricular aims imposed "from above." There's an oft -uttered saying that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The gist of the saying's message, of course, is that if you are given unsuitable raw material, it's impossible... | |
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