[17]
Why, again, since children are
capable of moral training, should they not be
capable of literary education? I am well aware
that during the whole period of which I am speaking
we can expect scarcely the same amount of progress
[p. 29]
that one year will effect afterwards. Still those who
disagree with me seem in taking this line to spare
the teacher rather than the pupil.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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