Excerpt from Principles of Education, Vol. 1 of 2: Drawn From Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes
These volumes are the result not of theory, but of experience. If it had been otherwise, they would never have been offered to the world. Education is too important a matter for theory. The risks of mistake are too fatal.
But when the Providence of God has forced upon us the practical consideration of a particular subject, and given us opportunities for testing the principles on which we have acted, it can scarcely be presumptuous to bring the conclusions at which we have arrived - whether through success or failure - into a definite form that may possibly be useful to others.
And there are occasionally periods in life when, after having waited in the earnest hope that some other person would give utterance to opinions and facts generally ignored, though fully known, we are at last urged to speak ourselves, from the sense of a necessity which no longer admits of delay.
Under a feeling of this kind some things contained in the following pages have been written.
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