splendour of modern art, is doing a very sorry service to the State.

You will see by all that I have said on this study of ancient art
that I mean by education herein something much wider than the
teaching of a definite art in schools of design, and that it must be
something that we must do more or less for ourselves: I mean by it
a systematic concentration of our thoughts on the matter, a studying
of it in all ways, careful and laborious practice of it, and a
determination to do nothing but what is known to be good in
workmanship and design.

Of course, however, both as an instrument of that study we have been
speaking of, as well as of the practice of the arts, all
handicraftsmen should be taught to draw very carefully; as indeed
all people should be taught drawing who are not physically incapable
of learning it: but the art of drawing so taught would not be the
art of designing, but only a means towards THIS end, GENERAL
CAPABILITY IN DEALING WITH THE ARTS,

For I wish specially to impress this upon you, that DESIGNING cannot
be taught at all in a school: continued practice will help a man
who is naturally a designer, continual notice of nature and of art:
no doubt those who have some faculty for designing are still
numerous, and they want from a school certain technical teaching,
just as they want tools: in these days also, when the best school,
the school of successful practice going on around you, is at such a
low ebb, they do undoubtedly want instruction in the history of the
arts: these two things schools of design can give: but the royal
road of a set of rules deduced from a sham science of design, that
is itself not a science but another set of rules, will lead