[8]
Those of my
readers who know their Cicero will not be surprised
[p. 229]
that I take this view: for does he not say “I would
have the youthful mind run riot in the luxuriance of
its growth”?1
We must, therefore, take especial care, above
all where boys are concerned, to avoid a dry
teacher, even as we avoid a dry and arid soil for
plants that are still young and tender.
1 de Or. i. xxi. 88.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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