text:  The fatal error which is casting a blight over our plans of education is to look merely to the immediate result totally disregarding the motive which has led to it and the qualities of which it is the indication; yet would those to whom the delicate and most responsible task of education is confided but consider that habits of mind are formed by inward principle and not external action they would adopt a more rational system than that to which mediocrity owes its present triumph over us; and which bids fair to wither up during another generation the youth and hopes of England