In fact, the educational problem of those early days was an educational problem and not a social one.

We did not spend our time teaching boys to speak seventeen languages, without any ideas to express in any one of them, but went in for the ideas first.

We regarded speech merely as a vehicle for the expression of ideas, and went at it from that point of view, rather than the other way around according to modern notions.

Cain and Abel didn't have to go to a military school to learn how to haze each other, and no young man of that day ever thought of qualifying for his A.B.by compelling another young man to sip Tabasco sauce through a straw.

What they learned, they learned by experience, and not through the pages of a book.