Excerpt from Joyous Wayfarers: An Account of Some Modern Ideals in Education
It is many years since the old schoolmaster found the Lady Jane absorbed in reading Plato while all the others of the houshold were hunting in the park - "reading Plato's 'Phaedo' in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentleman would read a merry tale in 'Boccaccio.'"
It is less than a year since a Liverpool boy was found reading "Samson Agonistes" in the train, and that with perchance even more delight than other boys were reading Comic Cuts and The Union Jack. Was it for an examination? Not so, shrewd reader, no more in his case than in hers. The reason, if the truth must be told, was in both cases the same. It was a schoolmaster, one "who teacheth me so gentlie" (as the gentle lady hath it), "so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him." The boy used not these exact words, but "words to the same defect."
To hear this same schoolmaster talk his free mind on the things he has most at heart, to give us the values as he sees them of those things which count most for the future of the world, to watch him at work in his class and catch the tricks of the tool's true play - this has been my privilege, who have been invited to a private view, and I am right glad this privilege is so soon to be shared by all.
"I wiss all their pleasure in the park is but a shadow to he pleasure that I find in reading"; so said the studious lady. So say I.
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