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us hear what you have in the way of positive 

 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 which 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. Now, you may say, there are some 

 people who cannot draw, however much they may 

 be taught. I deny that in toto, 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 misapprehend me. I do not say 

 for one moment you would make an artistic 

 draughtsman. 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 



