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...entleman, his superiority was his own work, rather than that of station or education, and so he had never missed intercourse with really ladylike or c... ...arisome aunt. Tritton was a youth of seventeen, who had newly finished his education at an inferior commercial school, and lived on his father’s farm,... ...Gilbert was to go to India, it was not worth while to give him a classical education. ‘Is he to go to India? Albinia had not told me so.’ ‘I thought s... ... of guilt, as she lingered on the door-step after seeing them set off. The education of ‘Edmund’s children’ had been a cherished vision, and it had re... ...- vent it from preying on her spirits.’ ‘True,’ said Mr. Kendal; ‘a narrow education and limited sphere are sad evils in such cases.’ ‘Do you think an... ...rised that the results were not worse. India was not likely to supply what education had omitted. Looking back on old journals and the like, I am as- ... ...l. There will she spend the best years of her life in giving a second-rate education to third-rate girls, not one of whose parents can appreciate her,... ...xclaimed Albinia; ‘but you would not put a hunter there. Yes, yes, I know, education, and these girls wanting right teaching; but she, poor child, has... ...cincts of Bayford had done something to enlarge her mind. It was as if her education had newly begun. The fixed aim, and the union with a practical ma...

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... father’s country, yes.” His English was good, denoting more than a common education, though it had a slightly foreign or peculiar accent. The intonat... ...ief of the highest race in his tribe, and had been selected to receive the education of a pale-face at one of the colleges of that people. He had rece... ... the marvelous and the traditions of his tribe; then, again, the lights of education would seem to gleam upon the darkness of his superstition, and le...

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... Department, which in these days had charge of the scientific and artistic education of the mass of the English population, and had thrown himself int... ...aff and spirit survive, more or less completely digested into the Board of Education. The world does move on, even in its government. It is won- derfu... ... of the State to remember that the very beginnings of public 17 H G Wells education lie within my father’s lifetime, and that many most intelligent a... ...bstinate con- servatism, humanitarian enthusiasm, out of which our present educational organisation arose. I have long since come to believe it necess... ...f “Grant earning” 18 The New Machiavelli was created, and this would give education as a necessary by- product. In the end this belief was found to n... ...Grant-earning assumed a form easily distinguished from any kind of genuine education whatever. Other remarkable compromises had also to be made with t... ...to show you the way. Nobody will. There isn’t a way till you make one. Get education, get a good education. Fight your way to the top. It’s your only ... ... SCHOL SCHOL SCHOL SCHOLASTIC ASTIC ASTIC ASTIC ASTIC 1 1 1 1 1 M Y FORMAL EDUCATION began in a small prepara- tory school in Bromstead. I went there ... ... one hand and human intercourse on the other. Now I really began my higher education, and aired and examined and developed in conversation the doubts,...

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...hould reply. “Or against those of us who regulate the system of nurture and education of children in which you were trained? Were not the laws, who h... ...us he is disobeying his parents; secondly, because we are the authors of his education; thirdly, because he has made an agreement with us that he will...

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.... She was the only daughter of the banker, a charming young creature whose education was then being finished at the Gymnase, the plays of which she ad... ...an be restricted to mere military duty, little in keeping with their early education and their peaceful destinies. Men of science, pacific yet useful,... ...on at last dispersed completely his momentary frenzy. The teachings of his education, its religious precepts, but above all, so he told me, the rememb... ...n her from a convent, where she was finishing, rather late in the day, her education. For a long time her father refused to recognize her. She comes h...

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...of ‘one’ or of ‘fifty drachms.’ Plato is desirous of deepening the notion of education, and there fore he asserts the paradox that there are no edu ... ...ten made in modern times by those who would depreciate either the methods of education com monly employed, or the standard attained—that ‘there is no... ...ucation com monly employed, or the standard attained—that ‘there is no true education among us.’ There remains still a possibility which must not be ... ... became a real chain of existences. The germs of two valuable principles of education may also be gathered from the ‘words of priests and priest ess... ... or overbearing, or annoying; moreover , this son of his has received a good education, as the Athenian people cer tainly appear to think, for they c... ...dides had two sons, Melesias and Stephanus, whom, besides giving them a good education in other things, he trained in wrestling, and they were the bes...

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...neither brother nor sister. She had no neighbours near her fit either from education or rank to interfere in the conduct of her life, excepting always... ...ed herself of having, were much more easily counted. She had the birth and education of a lady, the strength of a healthy woman, and a will of her own... ...rted, he was not much above the farm- ers around him, either in manners or education. He had his merits, however; for he was honest, well-to-do in the...

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...king out of detail.’ The spirit of the seeker was still rare in the world; education was unskilled, unstimulating, scholarly , and but little valued, ... ...n enormous advantage in be- ing the only trained caste. Their professional education and 33 H G Wells every circumstance in the manipulation of the f... ...ht of bolder rearrangements of so- cial interaction, property, employment, education, and gov- ernment, than had ever been contemplated before. No dou... ... thought was interwoven with the very fabric of that pioneer school in the educational renascence in England. After the customary exchange years in He... ...the classical school of London University. The older so-called ‘classical’ education of the British pedagogues, probably the most paralysing, ineffec-... ...hat we have still to discover gov- ernment, that we have still to discover education, which is the necessary reciprocal of government, and that all th... ... en- ergy to manufacture wealth and appliances, and leave gov- ernment and education to the rustling traditions of hun- dreds of years ago? Those trad... ...mmon man were picked up haphaz- ard, there was practically nothing in such education as he was given that was ever intended to fit him for citizenship... ...m of inquiry, freedom of criticism, free communications, a common basis of education and understanding, and freedom from economic oppression. With tha...

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... observation that he couldn’t find it. As he dropped this cynical confession he looked straight and hard at the candidate for the honour of tak- ing h... ...d on green cloth. The girls used to do up their hair and their frocks themselves, and our young man felt ap- pealed to to be glad, in regard to Morgan... ...little musical vibrations as taking as picked-up airs—begotten by wandering about Europe at the tail of his migratory tribe. This might not have been ... ...tely they never could get them—fortunately, I mean, for Pemberton, who reflected always that if they had got them there would have been a still scanti...

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...is air and manner were those of the nobility. The intelli- gence of a good education was in his face. “What is your name?” asked the mayor, giving him...

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...s not provided, for at least one of its sons, the advantages of a “liberal education.” Having thus described the present state of Harley College, we m... ... stranger. He had possessed in his youth a very dear friend, with whom his education had associated him, and who in his early manhood had been his chi... ...though he perhaps thought that his long and suc- cessful experience in the education of the other sex might make him an able coadjutor to his wife in ... ... which the lady herself was not, perhaps, aware. It was soon seen that her education had not been neglected in those points which Mrs. Melmoth deemed ... ...d more in other countries than in their own. Is it not so, Ellen? for your education in a sea- port must have given you skill in these matters. But co... ...d the tavern of which he had now become the landlord. Under this course of education, Hugh Crombie grew to youth and manhood; and the lovers of good w... ...ncome was drawn from her farm, nor was Hugh ever miserly inclined. But his education and habits had made him delight in the atmosphere of the inn, and... ...pon—at least, she so conceived—to break through the rules which nature and education impose upon her sex, to quit the protection of those whose desire... ...took his young countryman under his protection, afforded him advantages of education, and, as his capacity was above mediocrity, gradually trusted him...

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... making a virtue of necessity, they consented to defray the expenses of my education. I was sent to Eton, where I remained ten years, during which spa... ...arents, I should not be indebted to my uncles Tynedale and Seacombe for my education; but as I grew up, and heard by degrees of the persevering hostil... ...ment, look, or word of mine. My southern accent annoyed him; the degree of education evinced in my language irritated him; my punctuality, industry, a... ... She is eighteen years of age, and has been sent to Brussels to finish her education; she is of middle size, stiffly made, body long, legs short, bust... ...wn the advantages of settled homes, decorous example, or honest Protestant education; resident a few months now in one Catholic school, now in another... ...She very prop- erly proposes to qualify herself for a higher department of education, and has asked permission to attend your lessons, in order to per... ...r word,” she said, with softness: “Mdlle. Henri has not received a regular education; perhaps her natural talents are not of the highest order: but I ... ... in the schoolroom, plainly dressed, with books be- fore her. Owing to her education or her nature books are to her a nuisance, and she opens them wit... ...reciated Alfred’s courage under calamity, she had remembered his Christian education, and had shown him, with the rooted confidence of those primitive...

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...id, “if you love me, let me be happy in my own way. Neither you nor I have education; we don’t know how to talk, nor to play ‘your obedient servant’ l... ...terbalanced by his desire to make his fortune; if he lacked cleverness and education, he possessed an instinctive rectitude and delicate feelings, whi... ... and Fall of Cesar Birotteau nearly twenty thousand francs a year, and the education of Cesarine, an only daughter, idolized by Constance as well as b... ...aughter, incapable of despising her father, or of ridiculing his defective education, so truly was she an ingenuous young girl. When he first came to ... ...rst came to Paris, Cesar had known how to read, write, and cipher, but his education stopped there; his laborious life had kept him from acquiring ide... ...us it happened that a man who was both mediocre and pusillanimous, without education, without ideas, without knowledge, without force of character, an... ...The curate died in 1804, without leaving enough prop- erty to carry on the education he had begun. Ferdinand, thrown upon Paris, led a filibustering l... ...s from a seduced peasant-girl, 39 Balzac his knowledge from an incomplete education, and his vices from his deserted and abandoned condition. Birotte... ...d one of those minds which understand at half a word, and he completed his education during his travels in Germany. On his return he found Madame Rogu...

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...e paper was written by her: ‘For Perotte.’ Jacquette Brouin had had a fine education; she could write like a clerk, and had taught her son to write to...

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... sure imposed by the will of the father, she was determined that Etienne’s education should not be wholly ecclesiastical, and took pains to secularize... ... hastened it. She tried to warn the duke as to the results of Maximilien’s education, and was repulsed; she saw that she could give no remedy to the s... ...oly; she would turn away weeping, and wept long. 59 Balzac Thus the moral education of the young girl required no less care than her physical educati...

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...until he be- lieved he could accurately translate any remark which they made. This was Jim Baker. According to Jim Baker, some ani- mals have only a l... ...lecture-courses upon spe- cialties of an unusual nature are often delivered to very slim audiences, while those upon more practical and every-day matt... ...gymnasium, under a system which allowed him no freedom, but vigorously com- pelled him to work like a slave. Consequently, he has left the gymnasium w... ... is to per- fect some of its profounder specialties. It is said that when a pupil leaves the gymnasium, he not only has a comprehen- 19 A Tramp Abroa... ...with the Latin. Foreign youth steer clear of the gymnasium; its rules are too severe. They go to the university to put a mansard roof on their whole g... ... the Germans like so much as an opera. They like it, not in a mild and moderate way, but with their whole hearts. This is a legiti- mate result of hab... ... diligently through my agent. I made Harris get up and bow and leave; invariably his bow was returned, then I got up and bowed my- self and retired. T... ...lessed tired of it, mind I tell you. The old man wrote me that he was coming over in June, and said he’d take me home in August, whether I was done w... ...; we pretend we like it. I know several of that sort of people— and I propose to be one of them myself when I get home Mark Twain 124 with my fine Eu...

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...erior effects. The two masters were not robbed. Finally Fougeres ended his education with Duval-Lecamus. During these studied and these different tran...

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...them of infant schools and houses of industry, in which a system of virtuous education, based upon sound principles, should be observed, and moral pre... ...nce of some Mudfog and Other Sketches Charles Dickens 29 general plan of education, to be sanctioned by Parliament, until such time as the more in... ...e had made with great difficulty and labour, regard ing the state of infant education among the middle classes of London. He found that, within a cir... ...idering it a matter of the deepest im portance, in connection with national education, that the people should not lose such opportunities of making t...

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...would certainly have taken to literature and have written reviews; but his education had not been liberal. He had read some novels from the adjoining ... ...n his position, as if he had had a very large amount of money spent on his education. He was not a man to fall in love in the wrong place; and so, he ...

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...t social accident, that sub-providence, having willed that they be without education and devoid of the talent of observation, it follows that they are... ...ate it successfully,” said Joseph Bridau. “No. Without being neglected, my education was purely commercial; but I have so profound and delicate a sens... ...o the “demi-bourse,” or scholarship, by which he (Oscar) had ob- tained an education, was due to the Comte de Serizy. Most of this would now cease. Mo... ...ther bow-legged nor crooked, after sacrificing ev- erything to give him an education, it would be hard if I could not see him on the road to fortune.”... ...en? Your mother has well ful- filled her duty towards you. She gave you an education; she placed you on the right road, and secured you a career. You ... ...nd of ten years, dowries to young girls, annuities to old men; it pays the education of children, and takes charge, in short, of the fortunes of every...