30 edn Address

or art-galleries, others meeting their teachers in
classes, or sitting down to private study, acquainting
 themselves with the thought of the world,
or thronging to a lecture or debate in the hall.
And on holidays—I think you know here in
Swindon what an excursion into the country
means. I know, loving the country and living
in it as I do, that I never enjoyed it more than
when I escaped to it from work in London.
And if Nature can give us high rapture and
ecstasy, then those for whom it preservesunfaded
the freshness of its charm are better off than
they to whom it is dulled by unbroken familiarity,
 I believe that that Swiss canton had
more charm for Rousseau than it had for its
inhabitants.
Now this provision of orPorRTUNITIES—the
enriching of your environment—I take to be
the most ‘ material &gt; part of your educational
reform, since without acquaintance with the
things themselves a man cannot judge of their
vaLues. And the whole business of education
is to lead your inborn Desire for the Good on its
natural path, whereby it comes to recognize the