1 “Now on this out of season afternoon Day schools which cater for the sort of boy Whose parents go down by Pullman once a month To do a show in town, pour out their young Into the sharp red October light.”
(Sent in by John Bateman)
2 “Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.”
“The Board schools.”
“Lighthouses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules, with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.”
(Sent in by Ann Martin)
3“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
(Sent in by Eddie Halliday)
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