Lecture Delivered Before the Georgia Historical Society, February 29th and March 4th, 1844, on the Subject of Education (Classic Reprint)

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In the latter places, much that is valuable in mental discipline is unlearned, whilst extravagance, dissipation and indolence are the prominent accomplishments gained._ There can be no substantial superstructure without a broad and solid foundation, and it is to this that the practical man will look in all projects relating to the great cause of education. Let our institutions advance with the progress of the nation, without attempting to press forward a hot bed growth. Supply and demand should go together. I would not be understood, far from it, as an advocate for lowering the standard of education; but on the contrary, for elevating it as fast as it can practically be done. But a large shadow is less desirable that a substantial, valuable reality, of half its dimensions.

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