1 The education and exercise of their youth.
2 In educating the youth of both sexes, their method is admirable, and highly deserves our imitation.
3 They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education.
4 Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children.
5 They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason.
6 To confirm what I have now said, and further to show the miserable effects of a confined education, I shall here insert a passage, which will hardly obtain belief.
7 A convenient apartment was provided for her at court: she had a sort of governess appointed to take care of her education, a maid to dress her, and two other servants for menial offices; but the care of me was wholly appropriated to herself.
8 In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but always in the presence of a professor or deputy, till they come to dress themselves, which is at five years old.
9 The cottagers and labourers keep their children at home, their business being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their education is of little consequence to the public: but the old and diseased among them, are supported by hospitals; for begging is a trade unknown in this empire.
10 I described that extraordinary care always taken of their education in arts and arms, to qualify them for being counsellors both to the king and kingdom; to have a share in the legislature; to be members of the highest court of judicature, whence there can be no appeal; and to be champions always ready for the defence of their prince and country, by their valour, conduct, and fidelity.