The resolve to devote myself to the study of law and to commence in Gottingen was formed, and received her approval.
For what reason I preferred the legal profession it would be hard to say.

Neither mental bias nor interest gained by any searching examination of the science to which I wished to devote myself, turned the scale.

I actually gave less thought to my profession and my whole mental and external life than I should have bestowed upon the choice of a residence.
In the ideal school, as I imagine it, the pupils of the senior class should be briefly made acquainted with what each one of the principal professions offers and requires from its members.

The principal of the institution should also aid by his counsel the choice of the young men with whose talents and tastes long intercourse had rendered him familiar.
[It should never contain more than seventy pupils.

Barop, when I met him after I attained my maturity, named sixty as the largest number which permitted the teacher to know and treat individually the boys confided to his care.