Show biow miny people read there is a great deal of truth in tho remark made by the dean of st pauls in the morley hall hackney while distributing erizea to students of lady hollos middle class school that education in these days is to a great extent superficial a considerable portion of it being required merely for show and immediate appearances rather than for usefulness in afe ufe but after all this wail is nothing new did not the earl of chesterfield advise his son to devote himself to the acquisition of literary scraps which he could quote in company and thus acquire the reputation of a well read man at a small expenditure of the midnight oil and did not the late lord leaves express the spirit of the time in the query the use of knowing i unless other know know it london telegraph |