Eheu! The
dumbing-down of education, the coddling of pupils these days! Let this writer tell it:
An age in which children are taught
the driest doctrines by the insinuating method of instructive games, has little
reason to dread the consequences of study being rendered too serious or
severe. The history of England is
now reduced to a game at cards, the problems of mathematics to puzzles and riddles.
Forcefully written!
Only -- published just over two
hundred years ago, in 1814, by Sir Walter Scott (Waverley).
Nihil sub sole
novum.
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