Introductory material
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EDUCATION, HOW OLD THE NEW
"Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: For it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us." --Ecclesiastes i:10. "Nullum est jam dictum, quod non dictum sit prius." --Terence, Eun. Prol., 41. [Nothing is now said which was not said before.] St. Jerome relates that his preceptor Donatus, commenting on this passage of Terence, used to say: "Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt." [May they perish who said our good things before us.]
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