THERE must be in the world many parents who, like the
present author, have young children whom they are
anxious to educate as well as possible, but reluctant to
expose to the evils of most existing educational
institutions. The difficulties of such parents are not soluble
by any effort on the part of isolated individuals. It is of
course possible to bring up children at home by means of
governesses and tutors, but this plan deprives them of the
companionsh ...