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...nd inferior to ei- ther of them taken separately. Crito is anxious about the education of his children, one of whom is growing up. The description of ... ...dorus and Euthydemus suggests to him the reflection that the pro- fessors of education are strange beings. Socrates consoles him with the remark that ... ...g the follies of mankind, which he finds not un- pleasant. (Compare Apol.) Education is the common subject of all Plato s earlier Dialogues. The con... ...nd then about heaping up money for them and yet tak- ing no care about their education. But then again, when I contemplate any of those who pretend to...

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...on, a king who by his excellent qualities gave sufficient testimony of his education in the house and company of Epaminondas, made him drink to such a... ...intend it for a commendation when we say that such a one is careful in the education of his children, by 61 Montaigne reason it is a common act, how ... ...ni- form, and constant, of which ours is no more than one little ray. Use, education, example, and custom can do all in all to the establishment of th... ...o friendship.”—T erence, Adelph., i. I, 40.] I condemn all violence in the education of a tender soul that is designed for honour and liberty. There i... ...d into me part of his humours, or whether domestic ex- amples and the good education of my infancy have insensi- bly assisted in the work, or, if I wa... ...rome alike. I willingly fall again into the discourse of the vanity of our education, the end of which is not to render us good and wise, but learned,... ...nds and to establish a correspondence and intelligence with them; but this education of ours has taught us defini- tions, divisions, and partitions of... ...ords has instilled into our fancy the vainest humours of antiquity. A good education alters the judgment and manners; as it happened to Polemon, a lew... ...ude that they are qualities of no relation or corre- spondence; and in the education of the children of his gov- ernment, Plato interdicts the art of ...

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... schools in existence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of education in England, and the disregard of it by the State as a means of fo... ...indling daily. A long day’s work remains to be done about us in the way of education, Heaven knows; but great improvements and facilities towards the ... ...ow sadly reduced by this increase in his family, and the expenses of their education. ‘Speculate with it,’ said Mrs Nickleby. ‘Spec—u—late, my dear?’ ... ... AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY ‘Nicholas has not long completed such education as his poor father could give him,’ rejoined Mrs Nickleby, ‘and h... ...hort time among the advertisements, read as follows: 33 Charles Dickens ‘“Education.—At Mr Wackford Squeers’s Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delight... ...n, sir, is a parent who is kind enough to compliment me upon the course of education adopted at Dotheboys Hall, which is situated, sir, at the delight... ...Squeers. ‘We go upon the practical mode of teaching, Nickleby; the regular education system. C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. ... ...eers. ‘Don’t tell me. You can put on the cards and in the advertisements, “Education by Mr Wackford Squeers and able assistants,” without having any a... ...e, that of companion to some amiable lady is the very thing for which your education, and manners, and personal appearance, and everything else, exact...

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...Homestead; Fanny, of his brother, an officer in the army. Left at home for education, the little girl had spent her life, from her seventh to her sixt... ...ree years old than her sister at five, and ever after, through the days of education, had enjoyed, and excelled in, the studies that were a toil to Gr... ...tious femi- nine life, Rachel had thrown herself into the process of self- education with all her natural energy, and carried on her favourite studies... ...dream of usefulness had devised; but she had already a de- cided theory of education, and began to read up with all her might, whilst taking the lead ... ...e look for that which women call work. “I have hitherto ground on at after-education and self-im- provement,” said Rachel; “now I trust to make my pre... ...seems that more cannot be done at present, let us see about the children’s education. Where are their books?” “We have very few books,” said Fanny, he... ...h among the back numbers of the “Traveller’s Maga- zine” for a paper upon “Educational Laws,” which she thought would be very good reading for Fanny. ... ... his deceit, unrepentant and unpunished, I can have no more to do with his education.” “Indeed,” softly said Fanny, “I am afraid so, Rachel. You have ... ...on.” “This reminds me of an interesting article on the Edgeworth system of education in the ‘T raveller’s Review.’ I will send it down to you.” “Thank...

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...nd sister, Black Hawks by birth, perfectly matched, just fin- ishing their education, and as handsome a pair as man could wish to find in a forty-mile... ...een rejected. “I like men who do things,” she had confided to a man in the Educational Department, who was teaching the sons of cloth-merchants and dy... ...eye on the ball,” he is, for practical purposes, denationalised. His other education proceeded on the pleasantest lines. W as he interested in any con... ...r, could not break him of this. It was decreed that he should complete his education in a wild and wonderful manner, and, further, that I should be in...

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... as my corrector. Do not despise the task, for, how- ever superior be your education, and however lofty your station, and however insignificant, in yo... ...t book, I implore you to do as I have said. And you too, O reader of lowly education and simple status, I beseech you not to look upon yourself as too... ...of life, some person who stands remote, 12 Dead Souls both by life and by education, from the circle of folk which I have pictured in my book, but wh... ...ng his remarks, that it is for the benefit of a man in no way his equal in education, or similar to him in tastes and ideas, or capable of apprehendin... ... was a good man of business; the Chief of Gendarmery, that he was a man of education; the Presi- dent of the Local Council, that he was a man of breed... ...was taciturn rather than loquacious, and he cherished a yearning for self- education. That is to say, he loved to read books, even though their conten... ...n life as all such bailiffs do—that, originally a young serf of elementary education, he had married some Agashka of a housekeeper or a mistress’s fav... ... meet the case. Yet you appear to be a man of sense, and possessed of some education. The matter is a very simple one. The question is: what is a dead... ...h peasants? Yet no; I believe that, even if you had received a fashionable education, and had mixed with society, and had lived in St. Peters- burg, y...

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... Edgeworth’s novels stepping from their covers, Or Mrs. Trimmer’s books on education, Or ‘Coelebs’ Wife’ set out in quest of lovers, Morality’... ...stands. ‘T is pity learned virgins ever wed With persons of no sort of education, Or gentlemen, who, though well born and bred, Grow tired... ... to little Juan — I can’t but say that his mamma was right, If such an education was the true one. She scarcely trusted him from out her sig... ... But what that motive was, I sha’n’t say here; Perhaps to finish Juan’s education, Perhaps to open Don Alfonso’s eyes, In case he thought his... ... It mends their morals, never mind the pain: The best of mothers and of educations In Juan’s case were but employ’d in vain, Since, in a wa... ...y, Dunces were whipt, or set upon a stool: The great success of Juan’s education, Spurr’d her to teach another generation. Juan embark’d—the... ... And for the bass, the beast can only bellow; In fact, he had no singing education, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow; But be... ...which of the two Could yet be known unto the fates alone; Meantime the education they went through Was princely, as the proofs have always s... ... had been bred To be disposed of in a way so new, Although their haram education led Doubtless to that of doctrines the most true, Passive...

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... that poor Fanny is dead, and Margaret married, there is all his expensive education thrown away, and all for nothing,’ said Mr. Edmonstone. ‘Ah,’ sai... ...the subject of his Oxford life, and advised him to prepare for it, for his education has as yet been a mere farce. 47 Yo n g e He used to go two or t... ...t public school, nothing compensates for the want of the regular classical education. I have no doubt it was very provoking.’ ‘I don’t want to be excu... ...Potts,’ said Guy. ‘He is a very clever man; he had a common grammar-school education, but he struggled on— taught himself a great deal—and at last tho... ...aid Mrs. Edmonstone; ‘all he meant was, that a person without a university education can- not tell what the requirements are to which a man must come ... ...not even think of blaming her for her elopement, for she had no mother, no education but in mu- sic; and her brother seems to have forced it on, throw... ...ere not made to understand each other. Sebastian Dixon was a man of little education, and when, in early youth, his talents had placed him high in his... ...he mind of any one whose time was properly occupied in the business of his education.’ ‘Is that all I am to say about her,’ exclaimed Mr. Edmonstone, ... ...llwood would receive her into her school.’ ‘On what terms? What sort of an education is she to have?’ ‘The chief thing she wants is to be taught Chris...

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...and mothers, nice cleanly nursery-maids, good meals, good physicians, good education, few cares, pleasant easy habits of life, and luxuries not too gr...

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... which last quality I myself have scarce ever seen in men of low birth and education. Nor will all the qualities I have hitherto given my historian ... ...this fellow, as we have al ready informed thee, had neither the birth nor education of a gentleman, nor was a proper person to be enrolled among the ... ...ve nothing to answer for. Had I been trusted entirely with the care of her education, no such accident as this had ever befallen you; so that you must... ... a very agree able woman, and had improved good natural parts by a proper education. indeed, she was to me a welcome guest. “A few days after her a... ... satisfy Mr. Dowling’s curiosity, by relating the history of his birth and education, which he did, like Othello, —Even from his boyish years, ... ...h, as young women in the affair of love; for which they may plead precept, education, and above all, the sanction, nay, I may say the necessity of cus... ...r. Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education. And, indeed, should the excellent Mr. Broughton be prevailed on ... ...of a mother? Have I been so ten der of their infancy, so careful of their education? Have I been toiling so many years, denying myself even the conve... ...erving, that they had always differed in their sentiments concern ing the education of their children. “I wish,” said he, “brother, you would have co...

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...g remark, that ‘the kings and statesmen of our day are in their breeding and education very like their subjects;’ or the anticipation that the ri- val... ...; for the laws he would substi- tute the intelligent will of the legislator. Education is originally to implant in men’s minds a sense of truth and ju... ...but even these are subordinate to him. (7) Fixed principles are implanted by education, and the king or statesman completes the political web by marry... ...he statesmen and kings of our own day very much resemble their sub- jects in education and breeding. On retracing our steps we find that we gave too n... ...r enemies. But the true art of gov- ernment, first preparing the material by education, weaves the two elements into one, maintaining au- thority over... ...g an unequal warfare with the beasts. At length he obtains such a measure of education and help as is necessary for his existence. Though deprived of ... ...nment sup- poses a degree of co-operation in the ruler and his subjects,—an ‘education in politics’ as well as in moral virtue; secondly , because gov... ... by laws. The divine foundations of a State are to be laid 37 Plato deep in education (Republic), and at the same time some little violence may be us... ... little violence may be used in exterminating natures which are incapable of education (compare Laws). Plato is strongly of opinion that the legisla- ...

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...ledge, banded together against the few good and wise men, and devoid of true education. This creature has many heads: rhetoricians, lawyers, states m... ...osed to fall, and that is purification; and from purification is de scended education, and the new principle of edu cation is to interrogate men aft... ...wofold, simple ignorance, and ignorance having the conceit of knowledge. And education is also twofold: there is the old fashioned moral training of o... ...fication; and from mental purification, instruction; and from in struction, education; and from education, the nobly descended art of Sophistry, whic... ...nd the Sophist, or that his will ultimately prove to be the de sired art of education; but neither do I think that he can long escape me, for every w... ...man,—pri vately—for hire,—taking money in exchange— having the semblance of education; and this is termed Sophistry , and is a hunt after young men o... ...not the teaching of handicraft arts, but what, thanks to us, has been termed education in this part the world. STRANGER: Yes, Theaetetus, and by nearl... ...heaetetus, and by nearly all Hellenes. But we have still to consider whether education admits of any further division. THEAETETUS: We have. STRANGER: ... ... a division is possible. THEAETETUS: Where? 97 Sophist – Plato STRANGER: Of education, one method appears to be rougher, and another smoother. THEAET...

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...ee other dogs look surprised and envious, as wondering how she got so much education. But, indeed, it was not real education; it was only show: she go... ... despicable in her society. So, as you see, there was more to her than her education. CHAPTER II WHEN I WA S WELL GROWN, at last, I was sold and ta... ...like him, and four and five to learn to live him. It was a slow and trying education, but it paid. He was of great stature; he had a leonine head, a l... ...here isn’t a ray of sense in it, or meaning to it. McClintock finished his education at Yale in 1843, and came to Hartford on a visit that same year. ... ... fruit of the tree, and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education. I told her there would be another result, too—it would introduce... ...iness, which is otherwise full to overflowing. It is not on account of his education that I love him—no, it is not that. He is self educated, and does...

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...ble to have too much of a good thing. Being convinced that duty, industry, education, loyalty, patriotism and respectability are good things (and I am... ...ork is more ruinous than the craze for drink; when he can afford secondary education for his sons you find three out of every five of them with their ... ...y, the ideas of the revolutionary Wagner of 1848 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, ...

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...frustrate; but those unwritten, or at least unconstraining, laws of virtuous education, reli gious and civil nurture, which Plato there mentions as t...

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...oman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incom- 40 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Do...

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...re many of our best clergymen, and soldiers, and statesmen, have had their education. But while he was happy over rules for his scholars, and in plans...

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...he frequency of the crime among those who abused the opportunities which the education of youth afforded them, to so abominable a purpose. v. 111. Fr...

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...upplies the proletariat with its own instru ments of political and general education, in other words, it furnishes the proletariat with weapons for... ... will say, we destroy the most hallowed of re lations, when we replace home education by social. And your education! Is not that also social, and det... ...ols, etc.? The Communists have not in vented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, ... ... they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class. The bourgeois clap trap... ...by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. 10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s fac... .... Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c. When, in the course of de...

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...g of intoxicat- ing liquors. Conscience is purely a matter of environment, education and temperament, and is no more infallible than any habit or beli... ...to place some restraint on such instincts and emotions through experience, education and settled habits. If the actions are never inhibited, the machi... ...olve the method to be used. The way is deter- mined by other faculties, by education, by opportunities, by the strength and weakness of inhibitions. I... ... have described, a life of toil offers no chance of success. His capacity, education and environment deny him the gambler’s chance of a prize. As an h... ...life of a child is a response to suggestion. This is about all there is to education. Even older men constantly and readily yield to suggestion. The r... ...wise person feels almost certain that if his children are reared with- out education, without discipline, without training or oppor- tunities, they wi... ...the forger and the confidence man. Both of these have gen- erally had some education and a fair degree of intelligence, and have had some advantages i... ...h few exceptions, the criminal comes from the walks of the poor and has no education or next to none. For this society is much to blame. Sometimes he ... ...n uneducated man commits crime because he is uneducated. Often his lack of education as well as his crime comes from poverty. Crime and poverty may co...

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... is giving way to the new habit of locking them up. And since what we call education and culture is for the most part noth- ing but the substitution o... ...tera- ture for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real, education, as you no doubt observed at Oxford, destroys, by supplantation, ... ...perman I do not know whether you have any illusions left on the subject of education, progress, and so forth. I have none. Any pamphleteer can show th... ...igible as elements in prac- tical heredity has demolished the hopes of the educationists as well as the terrors of the degeneracy mongers; and we know...

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...ion, the one reality that every fool can understand, tore off the masks of education, art, science and religion from our ignorance and barbarism, and ... ... and by all the jurymen of Vanity Fair. Another generation of “second- ary education” at our ancient public schools and the cheaper institutions that ...

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...ming, fighting, as is sometimes the wont with gentle- men of his cloth and education. Mr. Brock was strictly, what the Marquis of Rodil styled himself... ... a story, which she did; and a very glib one for a person of her years and education. Being asked whither she was bound, and how she came to be alone ... ...spo- sition all human beings are entirely equal, and that circumstance and education are the causes of the distinctions and divisions which afterwards... ...the establishment in Birchin Lane where he had the honour of receiving his education, there used to be adminis- tered to the boys a certain cough-medi...

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.... England and Scotland differ, indeed, in law, in history, in religion, in education, and in the very look of nature and men’s faces, not always widel... ...d and drilled by proctors. Nor is this to be regarded merely as a stage of education; it is a piece of privilege be- sides, and a step that separates ... ...business of Ireland clenches the nega- tive from nearer home. Is it common education, common morals, a common language or a common faith, that join me... ...rofessor Blackie has retired, and that Professor Kelland is dead. No man’s education is complete or truly liberal who knew not Kelland. There were unu... ... into the world and the profession of letters with the merest shadow of an education. But they say it is always a good thing to have taken pains, and ... ...last have not found their way there, all too early , through the stress of education! That was one thing, at least, from which my truantry protected m... ...ers, and the very instructive but not very palatable pabulum of some cheap educational series. This was Robert’s position. All day long he had dreamed... ... of the garden where he played himself? – for that, too, was a scene of my education. Some part of me played there in the eigh- teenth century, and ra... ...pleasures. It costs nothing in money; it is all profit; it com- pletes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any ag...

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...ear. But my father, in the meantime, from a view of the expense of a college education, which having so large a family he could not well afford, and t... ...s I allude to, sir, will in particular give a noble rule and example of self education. School and other education con stantly proceed upon false pri... ...rsuits and matrimony. In youth, there fore, the turn is given; in youth the education even of the next generation is given; in youth the private and ... ... objects. But your biography will not merely teach self edu cation, but the education of a wise man; and the wisest man will receive lights and impro... ...ur or two each day, and thus repair’d in some degree the loss of the learned education my father once intended for me. Reading was the only amusement ... ...e, as I have been inform’d, the knowledge of accounts makes a part of female education, she not only sent me as clear a state as she could find of the... ... of recommend The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 90 ing that branch of education for our young females, as likely to be of more use to them and ... ...would therefore offer it to the consider ation of those who superintend the education of our youth, whether, since many of those who begin with the L... ...like the opposition of this new mem ber, who was a gentleman of fortune and education, with talents that were likely to give him, in time, great infl...

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...father and with such a home, Robert had already the making of an excellent education; and what Murdoch added, although it may not have been much in am... ...lough in the furrow wielding “the thresher’s weary flingin’-tree;” and his education, his diet, and his plea- sures, had been those of a Scotch countr... ...al of humanity which should be equally natural to all grades of wealth and education, and suited, in one of his favourite phrases, to “the average man... ...ately by the spectacle of its horrors. It was a theatre, it was a place of education, it was like a season of religious revival. He watched Lincoln go... ...101 Familiar Studies of Men & Books friend I want, he remarks naively, “my education cannot dis- pense with your society.” His education! as though a ... ...keep up com- munication with his fellow-reformers as to pursue his work of education, he received boys to teach. It must not be supposed that he was f... ...s Stevenson weary of referring, must have been slender from the first. The educational arrangements of the University of Paris were, to our way of thi... ...e in a house of many pictures was tan- tamount, for the time, to a liberal education in itself. At Charles’s birth an order of knighthood was inaugura... ...his company and surroundings; and these changes are the better part of his education in the world. T o strike a posture once for all, and to march thr...

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...m a recent connexion with mining specula- tions; namely, that a scientific education was the really useful training for a younger son. Moreover, it wa... ...elopment. When I was sixteen I was sent to Geneva to complete my course of education; and the change was a very happy one to me, for the first sight o...

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...n humour, which it has been my chief delight to indulge. I received a good education. I can play the violin nearly well enough to earn money in the or... ...alities, which it was impossible to recognise. “I would have it a piece of education in all schools!” cried the Doctor angrily. “Where is the use of e... ...ch England is justly famous, Mr. Harry Hartley had received the ordi- nary education of a gentleman. At that period, he mani- fested a remarkable dist... ...e writer had thought much upon these sub- jects, he was totally lacking in educational method. For the character and attainments of Lecoq, however, he... ...ng; but his father, a man of sense and probity, had given him an excellent education at school, and brought him up at home to orderly and frugal habit...

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...so placed? For those among whom she might have legitimately found a level, education had now utterly unfitted her. And then, he well knew that she wou... ...rd was no fit associate for the wives of English baronets;—was no doubt by education and man- ners much better fitted to sit in their servants’ halls;... ...e countess’s letter certainly made the anxious mother think that her son’s education had hardly yet been completed. With this secondary object, but wi... ...la was now quite satisfied that her son should enjoy such advantages as an education completed at the university might give him. With his father Frank... ... a great millionaire; and so, after eighteen months’ trial of a university education, Sir Roger had no alternative but to withdraw his son from his al... ...aps, of a depraved disposition; but he had to reap the fruits of the worst education which England was able to give him. There were moments in his lif... ...bined had triumphed over the difficulties which humble birth and deficient education had thrown in his way; how he had made a name among England’s gre... ...oreclose. ’ Mr Gazebee, using all the perspicuity which his profes- sional education had left to him, tried to make Sir Louis understand that he had n... ...to act so well, seeing that in early youth she had had the advantage of an education in the Greshamsbury nursery; but not on that account was it the l...

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...all progressives.” “Yes, indeed it can. You see, it’s the effect of over education, I assure you. For over education leads people to poke their no... ...u know best,” he added, as though offended. “I am an old man and not of much education. I began as a soldier’s son, and this year has been the jubilee...

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...m, but Ryabinin did. Ryabinin’s children will have means of livelihood and education, while yours maybe will not!” “Well, you must excuse me, but ther... ...roud of him; proud that this man, with his immense wealth, his bril- liant education and abilities, and the path open before him to every kind of succ... ...aughter’s intimacy with Varenka, more especially as Varenka’s breeding and education were of the best—she spoke French and English extremely well—and ...

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...ssed a hope that the boys might remain together during the course of their education. Dr Robarts was a man who thought much of the breath of peers and... ...ands that those who were high placed before the world in rank, wealth, and education were willing to come forward and give their time and knowl- edge ... ...t a kind Providence can bestow on them; but that all is as nothing without education. That education and that civilization it is for you to bestow upo... ...lace of considerable trust, if not hitherto of large emolument: and on his education money had been spent freely, for in these days a young man cannot... ...t I suspect her—I give her credit for too much proper breeding: I know her education has been good, and her principles are upright. But people will ta... ...as well as I do. ’ Fanny could not help meditating whether proper feeling, education, and upright principles did forbid Lucy Robarts to fall in love w... ...her good things were to be bought and paid for, such as church repairs and education, of so much the most have an inkling. That a rector, being a big ... ...arts had, in her eyes, neither beauty, nor style, nor manner, nor even the education which was desirable. She was almost as far removed from being so ... ... would not have used the word, but she did think it. And then, too, Lucy’s education had been so deficient. She had had no one about her in early life...

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...How often have I explained to you, O Clayson, that your deplorable lack of education precludes you from the bril liancy to which you aspire?’ For an ...