3/25 I distrust my own ability--my own artistical skill, rightly to form their minds--rightly to unfold them." "Ah, education, education!" said Mrs.Gunilla, angrily; "people are everlastingly crying out now for education. One never can hear anything now but about education. In my youth I never heard talk and outcry for education, and yet, thank God, a man was a man in those days for all that. I confess that when I first heard this talk of education, I supposed that there would be two sorts, as of everything in the world. I thought so! But now, ever since _le tiers etat_ have pushed themselves so much forward, have made so much of themselves, and have esteemed themselves as something exclusive in the world with their education--now the whole world cries out, 'educate! educate!' Yes, indeed, they even tell us now that we should educate the maid-servants. |