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Nor indeed am I supposing that there is any great danger, at least in this day, of over-education; the danger is on the other side. I will tell you, gentlemen, what has been the practical error of the last twenty years, not to load the memory of the student with a mass of undigested knowledge, but to force upon him so much that he has rejected all.
They will never amount to anything that is, many of them and they become dissatisfied to follow in the walk of life that God intended they should, and drift into cities. It is the over-education of those who are not qualified to receive it that fills our cities, while the farms lie idle. "This, Mr.
He avoids over-education, and his beasts live with him and his children in a natural kindly manner. He will have no idlers, and even grand-mamma goes weeding. His nett produce is less than the production of the larger methods, but his gross is greater, and usually it is mortgaged more or less.
Heart-complaints are more common than they were; over-education and over-civilisation, I suspect. Very young people are not so subject to them; they have flurry, not worry a very different thing.
Hers was the loveliness of the violet, which is apt to pall in this modern day to aggravate, and to suggest wanton waste. For feminine loveliness is on the wane marred, like many other good things, by over-education. Norah Hood was a typical country parson's daughter, who knew the right and did it, ignored the wrong and refused to believe in it. The captain was busy with his Mahanaddy.
If brain specialists are continually coming across cases of mental breakdown resulting from cramming or over-education, it is quite clear that a system which is productive of such evils must be altogether defective in principle and wanting in common sense.
I know that I am expressing the opinion of some of the largest as well as the most enlightened employers of labour, when I say that there is a real danger that, from the extreme of no education, we may run to the other extreme of over-education of handicraftsmen. And I apprehend that what is true for the ordinary hand-worker is true for the foreman.
Only those who had saved nothing lost nothing, for Merton's was the only bank on the coast; and more than one old fisherman bent with rheumatism, crippled by the hardships of a life spent half in the water, half on it saw his savings the fruit of long toilsome years go to pay the London tradesmen a part of what young Merton owed them. It was the old, oft-repeated tale of over-education.
We contend, then, that this over-education is vicious in every way vicious, as giving knowledge that will soon be forgotten; vicious, as producing a disgust for knowledge; vicious, as neglecting that organisation of knowledge which is more important than its acquisition; vicious, as weakening or destroying that energy without which a trained intellect is useless; vicious, as entailing that ill-health for which even success would not compensate, and which makes failure doubly bitter.
"Has your ladyship heard that Harry Gregson has fallen from a tree, and broken his thigh-bone, and is like to be a cripple for life?" "Harry Gregson! That black-eyed lad who read my letter? It all comes from over-education!" But I don't see how my lady could think it was over-education that made Harry Gregson break his thigh, for the manner in which he met with the accident was this: Mr.
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