Better build school-rooms for the boy,Than cells and gibbets for the man.
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About Eliza Cook
Eliza Cook was a 19th-century English author and poet. Eliza Cook was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her hugely popular with the working class public in both England and America. Read more on Wikipedia →