Oration on American Education

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Excerpt from Oration on American Education: Delivered Before the Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers, at Their Fourth Annual Meeting, October, 1834Diodorus and Xenophon, are the answer. Ask the same question as to Greek history, and if you treble the number of extracts, and add Thucydides, Plutarch and Polybius, you hav the reply. Now, as to Roman history -a' few books of Livy, Caesar and Tacitus, with Sallust, are the amount of Roman history, studyd by our youth, in Latin. Who will venture the opinion, that any, but a most imperfect knowlege, of Roman history can be obtaind, from school and college classics? It is then manifest, that the founders and promoters of our scheme of education, never could hav intended them to teach Ancient History. But apart from this class of facts, there is nothing ia the Greek and Roman historians that is valuable. The truth is, we deriv our acquaintance with Ancient History, from Rollin, Mitford ahd Gillies, from Hooke, Ferguson and Gibbon. And who will not coincide, that the great majority of classical students acquire a more comprehen siv and accurate knowlege from those 'authors: that they understand, and remember it better, and that it is a source of greater pleasure to them, than if they had Spent five years more in studying Greek and Latin historians? The same remarks apply, of course, to ancient biography.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.