[13]
But if a boy's composition is so
careless as not to admit of correction, I have found
it useful to give a fresh exposition of the theme and
to tell him to write it again, pointing out that he
was capable of doing better: for there is nothing
like hope for making study a pleasure.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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