...Collected essays: II. Darwiniana, p. 253-302. years, until the midsummer of 1825. "Nothing," he says, " could have been worse for the development of my mind...taught, except a little ancient geography and history. . . . Especial attention was paid to verse-making, and this I could never do well. . . . Much attention...

...working entirely at Classics during the whole period and making but little progress in his studies. " The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank," he writes ; and adds, " the sole pleasure I ever received from such studies was from some of the odes...

...— let us hope so. But Darwin was probably somewhere near right^when he said, "Nothing could^have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school. As a means of education it was simply a blank." There is also a culture that is worth more to look at...

...seven years till midsummer, 1825, when I was sixteen years old.17 This school is described as being "strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. * * Much attention was paid to learning by heart the lessons of the previous day; this I could effect...

...and broadest intellects of our time, Charles Darwin, "I believe that I was in many ways a naughty boy The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." Joanno Baillie, writing of the influences which went to the making of John Hunter, says, "His mother...

...encourage me." (Memories, p. 21.) Or, again, try Darwin ! Writing of Shrewsbury, his school, he says : "The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank," and again of his course at Edinburgh : "The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and...