“I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously, all the offices both public and private, of peace and war.”

John Milton, 1659

Abbott, John, Prue Leith, and Heather MacTaggart. Overschooled but Undereducated: How the Crisis in Education Is Jeopardizing Our Adolescents. (London: Continuum, 2010), 233.