70 TECHNICAL EDUCATION. [LECT. 



have given him command of the common implements 

 of learning and to have created a desire for the things 

 of the understanding. 



Further, I should like him to know the elements 

 of physical science, and especially of physics and 

 chemistry, and I should take care that this elementary 

 knowledge was real. I should like my aspirant to be 

 able to read a scientific treatise in Latin, French, or 

 German, because an enormous amount of anatomical 

 knowledge is locked up in those languages. And 

 especially, I should require some ability to draw I do 

 not mean artistically, for that is a gift which may be 

 cultivated but cannot be learned, but with fair accu- 

 racy. I will not say that everybody can learn even 

 this ; for the negative development of the faculty of 

 drawing in some people is almost miraculous. Still 

 everybody, or almost everybody, can learn to write ; 

 and, as writing is a kind of drawing, I suppose that 

 the majority of the people who say they cannot draw, 

 and give copious evidence of the accuracy of their 

 assertion, could draw, after a fashion, if they tried. 

 And that "after a fashion" would be better than 

 nothing for my purposes. 



Above all things, let my imaginary pupil have 

 preserved the freshness and vigour of youth in his 

 mind as well as his body. The educational abomina- 

 tion of desolation of the present day is the stimu- 

 lation of young people to work at high pressure by 

 incessant competitive examinations. Some wise man 

 (who probably was not an early riser) has said of early 

 risers in general, that they are conceited all the fore- 



