Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: suaded, that this rough Draught of mine might be of some Use, if made more publick, toucKd upon what will always be very prevalent with me: For I think it every Afan's indis- pensible Duty, to do all the Service he can to his Country; and I see not what Difference he puts between himself and his Cattle, who lives without that Thought. This Subject is of so great Concernment, and a right Way of Education is of so general Advantage, that did I find my Abilities answer my Wishes, I should not have needed Exhortations or Importunities from others. However, the Meanness of these Papers, and my just Distrust of them, shall not keep me, by the Shame of doing so little, from contributing my Mite, when there is no more requir'd of me than my throwing it into the publick Receptacle. And if tJtere be any more of their Size and Notions, who lik'd them so well, that they thought them worth printing, 1 may flatter myself they will not be lost Labour to every Body. I myself have been consulted of late by so many, who profess themselves at a loss how to breed their Children, and the early Corruption of Youth is now become so general a Complaint, that he cannot be thought wholly impertinent, who brings the Consideration of this Matter on the Stage, and offers something, if it be but to excite others, or afford Matter of Correction: For Errors in Education should be less in- dulg'd than any. These, like Faults in the first Concoction, that are never mended in the second or third, carry their afterwards incorrigible Taint with them thro1 all the Parts and Stations of Life. I am so far from being conceited of any Thing I have here offer1 d, that I should not be sorry, even for your sake, if some one abler and fitter for such a Task 7l1ould in a justThe Epistle Dedicatory. Ixiii Treatise of E...