The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 53
Results of Education
Results of Education.
For the wise man knows that Education
To the Subject
—person should secure immunity(2.) To the Parent—ought to ensure freedom from Grief (and therefore from all correresponding unhappiness), for what might otherwise be physical, mental, or moral failures on the part of his offspring, and thus freedom from remorse for any laches on his part which would otherwise accrue from having neglected them.
(3) To Tub State—cannot fail to tend to an avoidance of National Humiliation in time of war or civil commotion; and of Poverty, Disease, and Competitive Inferiority, with other States always; and also of Legislative and Administrative errors, and of that Social and Commercial Licentiousness which are the precursors of decadence. Thus should accrue to
The Educated Person
—the acme of desire— contentment (the significant meaning of which word, by the way, from con and teneo—"a state contained within limits"—hence having the desire limited by present enjoyment, is now-a-days virtually lost sight of.) For "the greatest wealth is contentment with a little." In other words, "You have plenty of this world's goods if with your little you have contentment. If you have not contentment, you can never have enough of anything." Nor can I advance a better illustration of my meaning than Goldsmith's village preacher—"A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year."
The Parent— satisfaction—(satis—enough — factum — being done, thereby indicating a sense of having done euough.)
The State— prosperity—(pro spero—a condition in accordance with hope.)
Which is, of course, all either the educated person, the parent, or the State can by any possibility desire or expect to obtain in this i fe under any known conditions.