The Works of Oliver Goldsmith : With a Life And Notes
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith : With a Life And Notes
Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774
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Of all members of society, I do not know a more useful, or a more honourable one, than a schoolmaster ; at the same time that I do not see any more generally despised, or whose talents arc so ill rewarded. Were the salaries of schoolmasters to be augmented from a diminution of useless sinecures, how might it turn to the advantage of this people — a people whom, without flattery, I may in other respects term the wisest and greatest upon earth I But, while I would reward the deserving, I would Di...gitized by Google ON EDUCATION 187 dismiss those ntterlj unqualified for their employment : in short, I would make the business of a schoolmaster every way more respectable, by increasing their salaries, and admittmg only men of proper abilities. There are already schoolmasters appointed, and they have some small salaries ; but where at present there is but one schoolmaster appointed, there should at least be two ; and wherever the salary is at present twenty pounds, it should be a hundred. Do we give immoderate benefices to those who instruct ourselves, and shall we deny even subsistence to those who instruct our children ?
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