Excerpt from Aspects of Education: A Study in the History of Pedagogy Attention was exclusively paid to readings, to the delicate variations in the meanings of words. To grammatical forms, to letters and accents; yet the teacher was a man full of love of English and other literatures, and steeped in the knowledge of them. The best scholars turned out of the university were surprised to find, as a result of their training, how little they knew of the literary masterpieces, which they had spent a great portion of their lives in learning to construe. The main aspects of ancient life were entirely unknown to them, unless accident had led them to learn them. Yet the teaching of things rather than words had been advocated by great educationalists. Both abroad and in England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.