...Milton severely censures the practice which was then prevalent, of spending " seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." He then rapidly sketches ont a plan of education in general terms, taking in a vast range of study,...

...and so unsuccessful : first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together t are often to be met with among the polite masters of morality, criticism, and other speculation MILTON: Tractate on Education, 1644. I would first understand my own language, and that of my neighbours...

...by itself is tedious for the master, hard for the scho1 ' We do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin and Greek as might be learnt otherwise easily and delightfully in one year,'—Milton's Tractate of Education, lar, cold...

...most persons will confirm this statement. "We do amiss," said Milton, "to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year." I was reading lately a biography of the late Emperor Napoleon. When about nineteen years of age, and...

...learning generally so uupleasing and so unsuccessful: first, we do amiss to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year.' 2 The pupil shall not begin with results, but reach them by experience. He is not expected to construct...

...opinion result from the very neglect of this fact. 'We do amiss', he says, 'to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year '. s) What hinders the progress most is the loss of time caused, partly by 'too oft idle vacancies...

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...and that which casts our proficiency therein so much behind is but time lost — partly in too ot't idle vacancies, given both to schools and universities — partly in a preposterous exaction, given the empty wits of children to compooe "hemes, verses, and orations, which are the acts of ripest...

...opinion result from the very neglect of this fact. 'We do amiss', he says, 'to spend seven or eight years merely in scraping together so much miserable Latin...learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year'. :') What hinders the progress most is the loss of time caused, partly by 'too oft idle vacancies given...