The Education of Henry Adams - 2nd Reading, 3rd question

The tone should be read like when you want something so bad but don't know how to go about getting it. You feel anticipatio and anguish, yet sad and disappointed . "Yet Langley said nothing new, and taught nothing that one might not have learne from Lord Bacon, three hundred years before;..." "...the literary knowledge counted for nothing until some teacher should show how to apply it." Basically he saying that someone can teach you or tell you something until they are blue in the face, but that person won't understand unless you teach it a different way. People learn best in different ways. Some learn by audio, some learn by sight, and some learn by doing. If you can find someone's learning style, you'll be able to "get through" to them and make them understand. "Adams had looked at most of the accumulations of art in the storehouses called Art Museums; yet he did not know how to look at the art exhibits of 1900." All Adams needed was for someone who knew his learning style and taught from that.

Jen