created--Sole occupation to discover Child's early
tendencies--Duties distinct from those of Preceptors or Fathers of
Knowledge--Germ of evils destroyed


VI.--CORRECTION OF FAULTS.

Remedies employed vary with characteristics--Absence of violent
punishment--Children to be raised, not degraded--Animals not
corrected by blows--Example--Pupil not corrected by the imposition
of tasks--Child encouraged to regard study as a
privilege--Correction effected by gentleness--Time, labour, &c.,
bestowed unsparingly--Even when fault seems eradicated fresh tests
applied--Adult offenders--Child of genius watched with reference to
superior refinement--Economy of sparing nothing in educating the
future man--Lists of faults occupying attention of the
Character-divers--Results--Small beginnings lead to incurable vices
and disease


VII.--CHARACTER-DIVERS.

Secondary position of Tutors in former times--Now honoured--Aid
given by the Character-divers, &c., to Narrator--Young men of
special aptitude educated for the office--Their
astuteness--Example--Subjects of tesselated pavements--Zolea--Early
evidence of artistic talent often deceptive--Narrator's early
talent indicating him as a harpist--Guided to other studies