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• I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble educatio
  laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming....
• Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Tractate of Educatio...
• Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Tractate of Educatio...
• In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasa
  it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth....
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• Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue
  stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages....
• Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.
  All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests....
• That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatise...
• Rather than be less, Car'd not to be at all.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 47...