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Huxley On Education

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
August
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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If a lad in an elementary school showed signa of special capacity, I would try to provide hini with the means of continuing his education after his daily working life had begun. If in the evening classes he developed special capacities in the direction of science or of drawing, I would try to secure hĂșn an apprenticeship to some trade in which those povvers would have applicability. Or, if he chose to become a teacher, he should have the chance of so doing. Finally, to the lad rvf minina the niip, in amillion, I would tnake accessible the highest and most complete training the country could afiord. Whatever that inight cost, depend upon it the investment would be a sood one. I weigh my words when I say that, if the nation could purchase a potential Watt or Davy or Faraday, at the cost of an nundred thousand uoimds down, he would be dirt cheap at the money. lt is a mere commonplace and every day piece of knowlec" e that what these three men did has produced untold millions of wealth in the narrowest economical sense of the

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Old News
Michigan Argus