Henry Adams Quote

Indeed, had his father kept the boy at home, and given him half an hour's direction every day, he would have done more for him than school ever could do for them. Of course, school-taught men and boys looked down on home-bred boys, and rather prided themselves on their own ignorance, but the man of sixty can generally see what he needed in life, and in Henry Adams's opinion it was not school.

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

Indeed, had his father kept the boy at home, and given him half an hour's direction every day, he would have done more for him than school ever could ...

Indeed, had his father kept the boy at home, and given him half an hour's direction every day, he would have done more for him than school ever could ...

Indeed, had his father kept the boy at home, and given him half an hour's direction every day, he would have done more for him than school ever could ...

Indeed, had his father kept the boy at home, and given him half an hour's direction every day, he would have done more for him than school ever could ...