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Writing is a form of drawing; therefore if you five the same attention

and trouble to drawing as you do to writing, depend upon it, there is

nobody who cannot be made to draw, more or less well.... I do not say

for one moment you would make an artistic draughtsman. Artists are not

made; they grow..... You can teach simple drawing, and you will find it

an implement of learning of extreme value. I do not think its value can

be exaggerated, because it gives you the means of training the young in

attention and accuracy, which are the two things in which all mankind

are more deficient than in any other mental quality whatever.

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