Confessions Of An Old Bachelor By E F J Carrington

Download or read book Confessions of an Old Bachelor [by E. F. J. Carrington. ] written by Edmund Frederick J. Carrington and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ... nothing but a knowledge of Latin, Greek, or mathematics, when called upon, as soon as he quits the University, to take his seat in Parliament, be fit to undertake such a responsibility? How can he have the assurance to commence senator of this great practical nation? If he is unfit for his station, which he certainly must be, the fault is not to be imputed to him, but to a vile antiquated selfish system of much mischief and imposition. It is to be attached to those unworthy aristocratic prejudices, by which this quackery and imposition are kept up, vigorous and vital with poison, to debilitate the sons of sons to the third and fourth generation, ay, perhaps even to the hundred and third, and hundred and fourth. I love aristocratic feelings, and even prejudices, generally speaking, --but, with respect to places of education, and systems of tuition, it irritates me to see their mischievous tendency. Let them give way to a little good sense and good feeling for the real interests of the youth of this country; let not that valuable portion of life, from the age of nine to that of nineteen, --or from eight to eighteen, --as it may happen, --be wasted at school. Again, let it not be further wasted, from the age of eighteen or nineteen, to that of twenty-three or four. It is perfectly cruel upon a young man to be driven into the world with the prospect of having to acquire a load of knowledge, with which he ought already to be acquainted; glad, at the same time, to forget a vast deal of that which he has been learning. There is ample room, let me assure every body, to gain all the acquirements which are now gleaned through a period of twenty-four years, in just one half the time, or even less. We acquire a knowledge of French, Italian, German, o