The decline and fall of the British Empire - University of Oregon

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this is unnecessary, such knowledge
as will make him a capable and
unselfish leader in politics, art, or
commerce. These two aspects of
education are however inseparable,
and it is often impossible for a man
to be a reliable citizen if his educa-
tion has not fitted him to follow
some definite calling.
Now the English of the Twentieth
Century quarrelled mightily about
the first of these two aspects of
education. Every religious denom-
ination had its peculiar views on the
subject of religious training, and
every one was vastly exercised in
his mind as to what his neighbour's
child ought to be taught in the
National Public or private school
which it might happen to attend.
What all failed to realize was that
there are certain sacred truths in
regard to life which a child can only
learn in its own home from the lips