Primary and classical education

"Since man from beasts by words is known,Words are man's province; words we teach alone,When reason doubtful, like the Samian letterPoints him two ways, the narrower is the better.

Placed at the door of learning youth to guide,We never suffer it to stand too wide,To ask, to guess, to know, as they commence,As fancy opens the quick springs of sense,We ply the memory, we load the brain,Bind rebel wit, and double chain on chain,Confine the thought, to exercise the breath,

And keep them in the pale of words till death."

"The languages, especially the dead—The sciences, especially the abstruse—The arts, at least all such as could be saidTo be the most remote from common use."