Quote#Education
One can only hope … that the countryman will say to the townsman, Go…
Quote byWilliam Henry Hudson · 1841–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: (1st edition 1910).
English (original)
One can only hope … that the countryman will say to the townsman, Go on making your laws and systems of education for your own children, who will live as you do indoors; while I shall devise a different one for mine, one which will give them hard muscles and teach them to raise the and pork and cultivate the potatoes and cabbages on which we all feed.
— William Henry Hudson
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