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And yet what greater proof can there be of a bad and disgraceful

state of education than this, that not only artisans and the

meaner sort of people need the skill of first-rate physicians and

judges, but also those who would profess to have had a liberal

education? Is it not disgraceful, and a great sign of want of

good-breeding, that a man should have to go abroad for his law

and physic because he has none of his own at home, and must

therefore surrender himself into the hands of other men whom he

makes lords and judges over him?

Of all things, he said, the most disgraceful.