Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as p…

George Bernard Shaw
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent. ✨ George Bernard Shaw (2015). Plays Unpleasant, p.4, Read Books Ltd
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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent. ✨ George Bernard Shaw (2015). Plays Unpleasant, p.4, Read Books Ltd

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