Excerpt from English Grammar: Adapted to the Use of Those Preparing, for Local and Other Examinations

It will, perhaps, be in the recollection of some who use this book, that Professor Seeley, in his brilliant volume of Lectures and Essays, presses the claim of the English language as an important ingredient in the education of English children. The chief reason he adduces is one which must commend itself to any one who has ever sincerely tried to train boys or girls in any subject: namely, that to begin with English is to begin with what is known, from which the child may be led on to what is unknown. Children have, as a rule, a knowledge of English which, compared with their knowledge of any other subject, may be described as extensive: and it is a sad waste of opportunities to begin any serious, formal training of the intellect, without first grappling with the principles of a language which by ten years of age a child has learnt to speak with ease.

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