[19]
Such progress each successive year increases the total, and the time gained
during childhood is clear profit to the period of
youth. Further as regards the years which follow
I must emphasise the importance of learning what
has to be learnt in good time. Let us not therefore
waste the earliest years: there is all the less excuse
for this, since the elements of literary training are
solely a question of memory, which not only exists
even in small children, but is specially retentive at
that age.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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