But it demands much memory; and when they have loaded themselves in this way, they think that they are instructed in all things.

After all, what can they do that is of real use to mankind?
What can they create ?" "I suppose they are of use." "I don't know it.

A man will tell you, or pretend to tell you--for the chances are ten to one that he is wrong--what sort of lingo was spoken in some particular island or province six hundred years before Christ.
What good will that do any one, even if he were right?
And then see the effect upon the men themselves! At four-and-twenty a young fellow has achieved some wonderful success, and calls himself by some outlandish and conceited name--a double first, or something of the kind.

Then he thinks he has completed everything, and is too vain to learn anything afterward.

The truth is, that at twenty-four no man has done more than acquire the rudiments of his education.