State Education in England, or English Education in a State

        ut vero aliquis libenter educationis taedium lahoremque suscipiat, non praemiis modo verum etiam exquisitis adhortationibus impetrandum est.

—Pliny (I, 8)

Those who read my "Letter From Banausia" in the June Chronicles will perhaps recall that it described the studied destruction of . . .