These are two advantages still achievable, though with difficulty, in our epoch, by an earnest father in behalf of his poor little son.

And these are, at present, nearly all; with these well achieved, the earnest father and his son ought to be thankful.

Alas, in matter of education, there are no high-roads at present; or there are such only as do NOT lead to the goal.

Fritz, like the rest of us, had to struggle his way, Nature and Didactic Art differing very much from one another; and to do battle, incessant partial battle, with his schoolmasters for any education he had.
A very rough Document, giving Friedrich Wilhelm's regulations on this subject, from his own hand, has come down to us.

Most dull, embroiled, heavy Document; intricate, gnarled, and, in fine, rough and stiff as natural bull-headedness helped by Prussian pipe-clay can make it;--contains some excellent hints, too; and will show us something of Fritzchen and of Friedrich Wilhelm both at once.