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But, it will be urged, a large class is
unsuitable for the correction of faults or for explanation. It may be inconvenient: one cannot hope for
absolute perfection; but I shall shortly contrast the
inconvenience with the obvious advantages.
Still I do not wish a boy to be sent where he will
be neglected. But a good teacher will not burden
himself with a larger number of pupils than he can
manage, and it is further of the very first importance that he should be on friendly and intimate
terms with us and make his teaching not a duty
but a labour of love. Then there will never be
any question of being swamped by the number of
our fellow-learners.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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