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Depends on your social class. In UK wealthy families don't learn skills, they are above that already. They learn history, literature, rhetoric. They won't need
by deepsun 3y ago
Depends on your social class. In UK wealthy families don't learn skills, they are above that already. They learn history, literature, rhetoric.
They won't need to "do", they are here to "be".
- Kon-Peki 3y ago> I could fill Volumes with Descriptions of Temples and Palaces, Paintings, Sculptures, Tapestry, Porcelaine, &c. &c. &c.—if I could have time. But I could not do this without neglecting my duty.—The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts.—I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine John Adams to Abigail Adams, May 1780 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0258 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0258