Linnaeus long retained an unpleasant recollection of his school days;[5]
it is common to call this period of human life, a happy one, but that
existence must have been very wretched, of which, the time passed at
school has been the happiest part; it is sufficiently apparent even
to superficial observers that the mind cannot, in early life, be
sufficiently matured for high enjoyment; the most exquisite of our
pleasures, are intellectual, and cannot be relished until the mental
faculties have been cultivated and expanded.--_Clayton's Sketches
in Biography_.
[5] He was sent at the age of ten years to a school at Wexin,
the master of which was so severe as entirely to destroy his
spirits, and repress the early indications of his extraordinary
talents.
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