A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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