In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from ou… — Quoted

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“In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.”

James Payn · Education

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James Payn

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

Respect

James Payn

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

Food

James Payn

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Happiness

Muriel Spark

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

Education