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Letter XXI. Schools.
distinctly discernible, will indicate the different degrees of attention and
modes of culture most suitable to each particular disposition: an incurable
and irreproachable dullness or imbecility will no longer be
punished for the crime of idleness or obstinacy. That species of fraud
at Westminster call'd cribbing, a vice thought hitherto. congenial to
schools, will never creep in here. That system of premature corruption,
in which idleness is screened by opulence, and the honour
due to talents or industry is let out for hire, will be compleatly done
away: and nobleman might may stand as good a chance of knowing
something as a common man.
Nor, in point of present enjoyment, will the scholar
be a losers by the change. Those sinkings of the the heart at the thoughts
of a task undone, those galling struggles between the passion for play
and the fear of punishment, would there be unknown. During the
hours of business, Habit, no longer broken in upon by accident
would strip the master's presence of its terrors, without depriving it
of its use. And the time allotted for study being faithfully and
rigidly appropriated to that service, the less of it would serve.
The seperate spaces allotted for this purpose, would not
in other respects be thrown away. A bed, a bureau, and a chair must be
had at any rate: so that the only extraordinary expence in building would
be for the partitions: for which a very slight thickness would suffice. The
youth of either sex might by this means sleep, as well as study, under inspection
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