The Theory And Practice Of Ancient Education

Excerpt from The Theory and Practice of Ancient Education: Being the Chancellor's English Essay, 1885 If 'a great book is a great evil,' a small book is, possibly, a greater still: nor can there be any excuse for the publication of a prize Essay like the present, save an excessive deference to custom.. I have thought it better to publish the present pages in the original nakedness of their Essay form, rather than to simulate the appearance of an exhaustive treatise on Ancient Education. My aim has been to give a connected account of the main features of Ancient Education with illustrations from original writers, and I have ventured to add some remarks on Modern Education which I fancied, perhaps wrongly, to be not altogether out of place. For the many obvious inadequacies of the Essay I can only urge as a very, partial excuse the fact that it was written during some months of foreign travel, with scanty opportunities for referring to many authorities of whom I should have been glad to make more use. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. J. L. Strachan-Davidson, of Balliol, for the references to Polybius on p. 15, and p. 31. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.