Blast from the past

1st November 2002, 12:00am

‘The day is coming, if I do not misread the signs of the times, when the teachers of our elementary schools will have to choose between making a bolder use of their freedom and having it ruthlessly abridged’

Edmond Holmes, chief inspector of elementary schools, 1905-10

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