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Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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3. Pronouncing English correctly.

Which studies will expand into--

4. A thorough study of English as a culture language, its origin,
development, and vocabulary, and
5. A sound training in English prose composition and
versification.
And in addition--

6. Just as much of mathematics as one can get in.

7. Drawing and painting, not as "art," but to train and develop
the appreciation of form and colour, and as a collateral
means of expression.

8. Music [perhaps] to the same end.

_B._ To speak the ordinary speech, read with fair intelligence,
and write in a passably intelligible manner the foreign language
or languages, the social, political, and intellectual necessities
of the time require.

And _C._ A division arising out of A and expanding in the later
stages of the school course to continue and replace A: the
acquisition of the knowledge (and of the art of acquiring
further knowledge from books and facts) necessary to participate
in contemporary thought and life.

Now this project is at once more modest in form and more ambitious in
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