The Gilded Age
“And when thee has got the education thee wants, and lost all relish for the society of thy friends and the ways of thy ancestors, what then?”
The Gilded Age
He took a lively interest in the town and all the surrounding country, and made many inquiries as to the progress of agriculture, of education, and of religion, and especially as to the condition of the emancipated race.
The Gilded Age
It therefore suited the wishes of all concerned, when autumn came, that Ruth should go away to school. She selected a large New England Seminary, of which she had often heard Philip speak, which was attended by both sexes and offered almost collegiate advantages of education. Thither she went in September, and began for the second time in the year a life new to her.
The Gilded Age
“Still,” replied the Senator, “granting that he might injure ORDER, GENTLEMEN.499EAF. Page 188. In-line image of a man giving a speech in front of a large indoor crowd. himself in a worldly point of view, his elevation through education would multiply his chances for the hereafter— which is the important thing after all, Colonel. And no matter what the result is, we must fulfill our duty by this being.”
The Gilded Age
“Now my dear little friends, sit up straight and pretty— there, that's it—and give me your attention and let me tell you about a poor little Sunday School scholar I once knew.— He lived in the far west, and his parents were poor. They could not give him a costly education, but they were good and wise and they sent him to the Sunday School. He loved the Sunday School. I hope you love your Sunday School— ah, I see by your faces that you do! That is right.
The Gilded Age
Within a week or two the Hawkinses were comfortably domiciled in a new log house, and were beginning to feel at home. The children were put to school; at least it was what passed for a school in those days: a place where tender young humanity devoted itself for eight or ten hours a day to learning incomprehensible rubbish by heart out of books and reciting it by rote, like parrots; so that a finished education consisted simply of a permanent headache and the ability to read without
The Gilded Age
It was not altogether Philip's fault, let us own, that he was in this position. There are many young men like him in American society, of his age, opportunities, education and abilities, who have really been educated for nothing and have let themselves drift, in the hope that they will find somehow, and by some sudden turn of good luck, the golden road to fortune. He was not idle or lazy, he had energy and a disposition to carve his own way. But he was born into a time when all young