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"A further task will be the explanation of historical allusions; this must be scholarly, but not overloaded with superfluous labour. (italics mine)

To hunt down everything ever said even by the most despised writer means either wretched pedantry or ostentatious vanity. It suppresses and smothers alents which would be better kept free for other matters."

The best book on education of the young — it shows the proper temperament of the educator, the subjects which ought to be taught, and other various and useful ideas.

I’m not very far — yet, already, it is my firm belief that this book should be read, if not daily, then by the gods, at least make it yearly, by every single educator and every parental figure in a child’s life.