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Literary Lapses
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Stephen Leacock
74
A
Manual
of
Education
The
few
selections
below
are
offered
as
a
specimen
page
of
a
little
book
which
I
have
in
course
of
preparation.
Every
man
has
somewhere
in
the
back
of
his
head
the
wreck
of
a
thing
which
he
calls
his
education.
My
book
is
intended
to
embody
in
concise
form
these
remnants
of
early
instruction.
Educations
are
divided
into
splendid
educations,
thorough
classical
educations,
and
average
educations.
All
very
old
men
have
splendid
educations;
all
men
who
apparently
know
nothing
else
have
thorough
classical
educations;
nobody
has
an
average
education.
An
education,
when
it
is
all
written
out
on
foolscap,
covers
nearly
ten
sheets.
It
takes
about
six
years
of
severe
college
training
to
acquire
it.
Even
then
a
man
often
finds
that
he
somehow
hasn't
got
his
education
just
where
he
can
put
his
thumb
on
it.
When
my
little
book
of
eight
or
ten
pages
has
appeared,
everybody
may
carry
his
education
in
his
hip
pocket.
Those
who
have
not
had
the
advantage
of
an
early
training
will
be
enabled,
by
a
few
hours
of
conscientious
application,
to
put
themselves
on
an
equal
footing
with
the
most
scholarly.
The
selections
are
chosen
entirely
at
random.
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