Personal Reminiscences of the First Duke of Wellington With Sketches of Some of
Personal Reminiscences of the First Duke of Wellington With Sketches of Some of
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The Duke was often consulted by parents and guardians as to the sort of training which boys ought to go through in order to fit them for the army. His answer was in every case the same. " Give your son the best education England can afford. Send him to a public school or to one of the universities. In this country an officer must be something more than a fighting machine, and should therefore acquire such knowledge and habits of thought as shall qualify him to fill, with credit to himself and b...enefit to the public, such a post as governor of a colony and to act, if called upon to do so, as a magistrate. " And on the advice he gave to others, he himself acted. His sons went to Eton, their tutor being still retained to aid them in their studies, and that they did not fail to make good use of their time I have shown elsewhere. They proceeded next to Oxford, where they were entered at Christ Church ; the eldest as a nobleman, the youngest as a gentleman commoner; and at the same time half-pay commissions were purchased students' escapade 279 for both — a mode of connecting youths with the military service, not then uncommon, but long since abolished.
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The Duke was often consulted by parents and guardians as to the sort of training which boys ought to go through in order to fit them for the army. His answer was in every case the same. " Give your son the best education England can afford. Send him to a public school or to one of the universities. In this country an officer must be something more than a fighting machine, and should therefore acquire such knowledge and habits of thought as shall qualify him to fill, with credit to himself and b...enefit to the public, such a post as governor of a colony and to act, if called upon to do so, as a magistrate. " And on the advice he gave to others, he himself acted. His sons went to Eton, their tutor being still retained to aid them in their studies, and that they did not fail to make good use of their time I have shown elsewhere. They proceeded next to Oxford, where they were entered at Christ Church ; the eldest as a nobleman, the youngest as a gentleman commoner; and at the same time half-pay commissions were purchased students' escapade 279 for both — a mode of connecting youths with the military service, not then uncommon, but long since abolished.
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