ABSTRACT
Finally the most certain but more difficult means of preventing crime is to improve education, a topic too vast that would take me beyond the bounds of my present project. Still, I dare to speak of this topic because it is a barren field, too close to the intrinsic nature of government to be cultivated by only a few sage men in anticipation of the more remote centuries of public happiness. A great man who enlightens the humanity that persecutes him, 1 sees in the details what are the major principles of true education that are useful to men. This should consist less of a sterile body of facts than the precise selection and analysis of them; it should substitute originals for copies 2 of both moral and physical phenomena as either circumstance or resourcefulness present to the innocent minds of youth; it should guide youth to virtue by the easy path of sentiment and turn it away from evil through the absolute necessity of inconvenience, and not through ambivalent discipline which produces only feigned and momentary obedience.118
