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Dieses Buch ist kein Sprachlehrbuch. Es erklärt keine Grammatik, gibt keine Lernpläne und verspricht keinen Erfolg. Es geht um das, was im Unterricht sichtbar wird, wenn Sprache in den Hintergrund tritt: Entscheidungen, Zweifel, Pausen, Umwege. Menschen, die lernen, aber eigentlich etwas anderes klären müssen. Der Autor beschreibt Beobachtungen aus jahrelangem Online-Unterricht mit Lernenden aus... more...

I To what a great extent men are ruled by pure hazard, and how little reason itself enters into the question, is sufficiently shown by observing how few people have any real capacity for their professions and callings, and how many square pegs there are in round holes: happy and well chosen instances are quite exceptional, like happy marriages, and even these latter are not brought about by reason. A... more...

There has been a great improvement in the physical condition of the people of the United States within two generations. This is more noticeable in the West than in the East, but it is marked everywhere; and the foreign traveler who once detected a race deterioration, which he attributed to a dry and stimulating atmosphere and to a feverish anxiety, which was evident in all classes, for a rapid change... more...

INTRODUCTION In times of anxiety and discontent, when discontent has engendered the belief that great and widespread economic and social changes are needed, there is a risk that men or States may act hastily, rushing to new schemes which seem promising chiefly because they are new, catching at expedients that have a superficial air of practicality, and forgetting the general theory upon which practical... more...