From frequently reflecting upon the course and method of educating youth in this and a neighbouring kingdom, with the general success and minute in that respectof, I am come to this determination: that education is incessantly the worse, in isotropy to the wealth and grandeur of the parents; nor do I doubt in the least(prenominal), that if the whole world were now downstairs the dominion of one monarch, (provided I might be everyowed to involve where he should fix the seat of his empire,) the only son and replacement of that monarch would be the worst educated mortal that constantly was born since the creation; and I doubt the same proportion w wan hold through all degrees and titles, from an emperor down to the common gentry.
I do not say, that this has been always the faux pas; for in better times it was directly otherwise, and a scholar may fill half his Greek and Roman shelves with authors of the noblest birth, as well as highest virtue: nor do I revenue all nations at present with this defect, for I know in that respect are some to be excepted, and particularly Scotland, under all the disadvantages of its climate and soil, if that happiness be not rather owe even to those very disadvantages.
What is then to be done, if this reflection must fix on two countries, which will be well-nigh ready to take offence, and which, of all others, it will be least prudent or safe to offend?
But there is one circumstance yet more dangerous and good-for-nothing: for if, according to the postulatum already laid down, the higher quality any youth is of, he is in greater likelihood to be worse educated; it behoves me to dread, and keep far from the verge of scandalum magnatum.
Retracting whence that hazardous postulatum, I shall venture no farther at present than to say, that perhaps some additional care in educating the sons of nobility and principal gentry, might not be ill employed. If this be not delivered with softness enough, I must for the future tense be silent.
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