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For I do not wish the student to wear
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himself out in such pursuits: I would not have him sing
or learn to read music or dive deep into the minuter
details of geometry, nor need he be a finished actor in
his delivery or a dancer in his gesture: if I did demand all these accomplishments, there would yet be
time for them; the period allotted to education is
long, and I am not speaking of duller wits.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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