...well-tempered soul is to be preferred to any sort of learning ' or language ' [What a noble writer is this !] ' makes it his ' chief business to form the mind of his scholars, and give that 'a right disposition.' [Ay, there, dear sir, is the thing!] ' Which if once got, though all the rest should be neglected '"...

...sought in a tutor. Locke argues instead, "one who, knowing how much virtue and a well-tempered soul is to be preferred to any sort of learning or language,...of his scholars and give that a right disposition" (STCE, 135). Locke anticipates those who would protest, insisting on the difficulty of Latin. "And,...

...language the least part of education . . . [and] who, knowing how much virtue and a well-tempered soul is to be preferred to any sort of learning or language,...form the mind of his scholars and give that a right disposition."65 Thus earlier in Education, with Locke's characteristic ambiguity, he hints that it...

...Language the least Part of Educa- 35 tion; one who knowing how much Virtue and a welltemper'd Soul is to be preferred to any sort of Learning or Language,...though all the rest should be neglected, would in 40 due Time produce all the rest; and which, if it be not got and settled so as to keep out ill and...

...Language the least Part of Educa- 35 tion; one who knowing how much Virtue and a welltemper'd Soul is to be preferred to any sort of Learning or Language,...though all the rest should be neglected, would in 40 due Time produce all the rest; and which, if it be not got and settled so as to keep out ill and...