III. OF EDUCATION.
(a) ON THE EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG: LETTER TO A FRIEND, 1806.
(b) OF THE PEOPLE, THEIR WAYS AND NEEDS: LETTER TO ARCHDEACON WRANGHAM, 1808.
(c) EDUCATION: TWO LETTERS TO THE REV. H.J. ROSE, 1828.
(d) EDUCATION OF DUTY: LETTER TO REV. DR. WORDSWORTH, 1830.
(e) SPEECH ON LAYING THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF THE NEW SCHOOL IN THE VILLAGE OF BOWNESS, WINDERMERE, 1836.
(a) ON THE EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG.
Letter to a Friend [1806].
MY DEAR SIR,
I am happy to hear of the instructions which you are preparing for parents, and feel honoured by your having offered to me such an opportunity of conveying to the public any information I may possess upon the subject; but, in truth, I am so little competent in the present unarranged state of my ideas to write any thing of value, that it would be the highest presumption in me to attempt it. This is not mock modesty, but rigorous and sober truth. As to the case of your own child, I will set down a few thoughts, which I do not hope will throw much light on your mind, but they will show my willingness to do the little that is in my power.
The child being the child of a man like you, what I have to say will lie in small compass.