You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .
Source: On Education, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, 1773.
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld, (Jun 20 1743-1825), English poet, writer; She was one of the foremost radical intellectual women of her time; edited the fifty volumes of The British Novelists, 1810.