We know people who are such superb conversers that no one would ever dream that they have not had the advantages of the higher schools.

Many a college graduate has been silenced and put to shame by people who have never even been to a high school, but who have cultivated the art of self-expression.
The school and the college employ the student comparatively a few hours a day for a few years; conversation is a training in a perpetual school.

Many get the best part of their education in this school.
Conversation is a great ability discoverer, a great revealer of possibilities and resources.

It stimulates thought wonderfully.

We think more of ourselves if we can talk well, if we can interest and hold others.