Sunday, November 13, 2011

Prophylactic ...

... Bedlam or Parnassus: On Preparing Students, Or Not, For What. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

"If you approve, headmaster, I will stay as I am as long as any boy wants to read the classics. I think it would be very wicked indeed to do anything to fit a boy for the modern world."
"It's a short-sighted view, Scott-King."
"There, headmaster, with all respect, I differ from you profoundly. I think it is the most long-sighted view it is possible to take."

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