Excerpt from The Model Teacher Lecture on Thomas Arnold: Late Master of the Rugby School, England, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction
Man is so constituted, as to crave a perfect standard of excellence. In every department of life, he sets before himself a faultless model. The beau-ideal of the sculptor is perfect. He pictures to himself a human form more symmetrical than is found in actual existence. Excluding every blemish and deformity, and concentrating every charm and beauty of limb and feature, he erects in his imagination an ideal upon which to exercise his art. The hero takes as his guiding star, an imaginary character, who combines all those qualities, which constitute military eminence. The scholar proposes to himself a standard higher than is found in actual life. The good man is not satisfied with a rule of life, which does not demand conformity to the purest virtue, and enjoin every perfection of character.
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