There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
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About Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson was a 18th-century English writer and lexicographer. Samuel Johnson, often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Education — The importance of teaching, learning, and intellectual curiosity