Literary notes about Training (AI summary)
In literature, the term "training" appears in a remarkably versatile spectrum of contexts, reflecting diverse modes of human endeavor and development. It may denote the cultivation of artistic or practical skills, as in the refinement of a voice for performance or the development of musical aptitude ([1], [2]), or the disciplined regimen needed for physical, military, or even intellectual pursuits ([3], [4], [5]). Authors employ the word both in its literal sense—as in instructing a servant or soldier ([6], [3])—and metaphorically, to illustrate moral or cultural formation, as when training becomes a lifelong method of shaping one’s character and capacity for reason ([7], [8]). This dual usage underscores literature’s broader concern with the processes of education and self-improvement, whether through formal institutions, like colleges and academies ([9], [10]), or through the subtler, habitual exercises of daily life and thought ([11], [12]).
- The munificence of the commissary of stores exalted her socially, and gave her the opportunity of training her voice.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe - The object of the musical training of the Arcadians.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius - If in training soldiers commands are habitually enforced, the army will be well-disciplined; if not, its discipline will be bad.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi - Ay, ay, a man who uses his throat altogether, can hardly give his legs a proper training.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper - Scientific thinking, 145-6 Sense training, 190-97 [Pg 228] Sequence, 2 ; cf. Consequence.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - His own good sense taught him that such a training of his servants was unjust and dangerous.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Is not one's early home the place where he should get his principal training for life?
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - For as in the case of animals, so in that of men, training is successful only when you begin in early youth.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer - Then he entered as a student the newly-founded Missionary Training College of the British Jews' Society, and remained there over two years.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein - He believed that he could afford a college training and he got it.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - [Pg 157] PART THREE: THE TRAINING OF THOUGHT CHAPTER TWELVE ACTIVITY AND THE TRAINING OF THOUGHT
— from How We Think by John Dewey - Daily and hourly, during our whole life, we keep our senses in training for this end exclusively, and for its sake our experiences are accumulated.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James