[7]
Trivial as these
points may seem, our boys are still at school and I
am reminding their instructors of their duty. And
if one of our teachers is lacking in education and
has done no more than set foot in the outer courts
of his art, he will have to confine himself to the
rules published in the elementary text-books: the
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more learned teacher on the other hand will be in a
position to go much further: first of all, for example,
he will point out that there are many different kinds
of barbarism.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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