Ideal Education
H. O. Mackey. Lamentations 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth. Writing upon "Uppingham School" a recent author says: "Here a boy drops rank, wealth, luxury, and for eight or ten years, and for the greater part of these years, lives among his equals in an atmosphere of steady discipline, which usually compels a simple and hardy life, and in a community where the prizes and applause are about equally divided between mental energy and spiritual vigour. Here respect and obedience become habitual to him; lie learns to regard the rights of others and to defend his own; to stand upon his feet in the most democratic of all societies — a boy republic. Above all, he escapes the mental and moral suffocation from which it is well-nigh impossible to guard boys in rich and luxurious homes." (H. O. Mackey.) Parallel Verses KJV: It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. WEB: It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.