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suggestion. Then I am bound to tell you that, if 

 I could make a clean sweep of everything — I am 

 very glad I cannot because I might, and 

 probably should, make mistakes, — but if I could 

 make a clean sweep of everything and start 

 afresh, I should, in the first place, secure that 

 training of the young in reading and writing, and 

 in the habit of attention and observation, both to 

 that which is told them, and that w^hich they see, 

 which everybody agrees to. But in addition to 

 that, I should make it absolutely necessary for 

 everybody, for a longer or shorter period, to learn 

 to draw. Xow, you may say, there are some 

 people who cannot draw, however much they may 

 be taught. I deny that in ioto, because I never yet 

 met with anybody who could not learn to write. 

 Writing is a form of drawing; therefore if you 

 give the same attention and trouble to drawing 

 as you do to writing, depend upon it, there is 

 nobody who cannot be made to draw, more or less 

 well. Do not misa])prohen(l me. I do not say for 

 one moment you would UKike an artistic draughts- 

 man. Artists are not made; they grow. You 

 may improve the natural faculty in that direction, 

 but you cannot make it; but you can teach simple 

 drawing, and you will find it an implement of 

 learning of extreme value. I do not think its 

 value can be exaggerated, because it gives you 

 the means of training the young in attention and 

 accuracy, which are the two things in whicli all 





