There Is a Royal Road to Learning.

Otago Witness, Issue 1585, 8 April 1882, Page 29

There Is a Royal Road to Learning.

In a recent number of the Continental Times, published at Geneva, Switzerland, is an article on the Prince of Wales, by E. 0. Grenville Murray, whose death was announced a few months ago. In it he says: 'The Prince is thoroughly enlightened in his views on the leading questions of the day. The son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert could hardly be otherwise, whether one considers the remarkable abilities of bis parents or the excellent education they bestowed on their children. While on this topic, one may venture to call attention to a popular fallacy expressed in the sentence .that "there is no royal road to learn- ' ing."" The path of knowledge is made exceeds irigly smooth for a Prince of Wales. That the best books, the ablest of professors, the choice of hours, should all be at his disposal— this may be a small, thing ; he has access to stores of information which other students could not obtain for love or money. From his earliest youth he is placed in frequent and familiar intercourse with the men who make history. Even in these days of Mayors of the Palace, he may be said, in some sense, to make it himself. The education which many scholars only begin to receive at thirty, and many others never receive at all — the education which consists in knowledge of the world — he acquires easily and pleasantly without leaving his home.'