Your lordship, I fear, hardly hears of that, as
willing to breed them in your eye and at home, and doubting their
manners may be corrupted abroad. They are in more danger in your
own family, among ill servants (allowing they be safe in their
schoolmaster), than amongst a thousand boys, however immodest.
Would we did not spoil our own children, and overthrow their manners
ourselves by too much indulgence! To breed them at home is to breed
them in a shade, whereas in a school they have the light and heat of
the sun. They are used and accustomed to things and men. When they
come forth into the common-wealth, they find nothing new, or to
seek. They have made their friendships and aids, some to last their
age. They hear what is commanded to others as well as themselves;
much approved, much corrected; all which they bring to their own
store and use, and learn as much as they hear. Eloquence would be
but a poor thing if we should only converse with singulars, speak
but man and man together. Therefore I like no private breeding. I
would send them where their industry should be daily increased by
praise, and that kindled by emulation.
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