My father was not one of those who set little value on book learning, from their own consciousness of not possessing it: on the contrary, he would often remark, that as he felt the want of a liberal education himself, he was determined to bestow one on me.

"Another very important point is the excellent effect we have found to result from religious education; we constantly read the Scriptures to them twice a day; many of them are taught, and some of them have been enabled to read a little themselves.

Above all the difficulty of language must be tackled as it has never been yet, so that it may be a real disadvantage and disgrace for the boy or girl of either country who has had a secondary education not to be able to speak, in some fashion, the language of the other.

I do not forget the very important fact that German education, elementary and higher, has been deliberately directed to inculcate patriotic feeling, that the doctrine of armed force as the highest manifestation of the State has been industriously propagated by the authorities, and that the unification of Germany by force has given to the cult of force a meaning and a popularity probably unknown in any other country.

" "You got a better education now than nine boys out of ten.

Maybe we never thought of the Booker Washington idea, or purely industrial education, but at any rate we went on the theory that the Negro deserved and in time could take as good an education as any other American.

He had little education and highly developed musclesthat is to say, he was no scholar but essentially a gentlemana good enough education in its way, and long may Britons seek it!

What is the use, it is said, of attempting to make physical science a branch of primary education?

"Stick to it, my boy," he said to him with much gravity, "there's nothing like a good classical education!

BIRGE, EDWARD BAILEY. Advance sheets of Music in rural education.

In this tool age, high school girls are cut off from technical education, although they are destined to carry on in large measure our skilled trades.

Mr. Shakoor then spoke to the parents and friends of the scholars, telling them how the building had been made for God's glory and the good of the children in time and in eternity, and that with a good secular education the knowledge of God's revealed Word in the Old and New Testament was given to all of them."

Some looked for it in literature; for the female education of France in that age was far higher than England could show.

The boy sulked and was miserable at home, and, after a number of more serious escapades than he had before indulged in, he was sent to a tutor for military instruction, where he was prepared for the army and received a fairly good professional education.

Education, scientific education, costs like thunder.

Cave bore this persecution awhile, and then left the school, and the hope of a literary education, to seek some other means of gaining a livelihood.

He was sincerely desirous of gaining a thorough education, and of doing credit to his patrons and friends, and he hoped to be permitted to accomplish much good in the world, when he had acquired his profession.

I was unconsciously taking another lesson in the practical education which has served me so well through my life.

The notion that it was possible to go further than this in removing the injusticefor injustice it is, whether admitting of a complete remedy or notinvolved in the fact that some are born to riches and the vast majority to poverty, I then reckoned chimerical, and only hoped that by universal education, leading to voluntary restraint on population, the portion of the poor might be made more tolerable.

"The ear of a child is less trained, except in the case of a musical education; but the touch is a delicate sense given in exquisite degree to a girl, and her training comes in to its aid.

While the active-minded portion of society believed ardently in progressive evolution, in the sufficiency of the intellect, the inerrancy of the scientific method, and the transmission by inheritance of acquired characteristics, this supreme confidence in free, secular, compulsory education as the cure-all of the profuse and pervasive ills of society was not only natural but inevitable.

Formal education, carried on chiefly by means of books, is a very small part of the making of a man or a woman.

[Footnote 1: Douglass, The Life and Times, p. 250.] Vocational education, Douglass thought, would disprove the so-called mental inferiority of the Negroes.

We have then another classthe young men of superior education employed in warehouses and counting-houses.

But what John needs is a good, sound education from the beginning.