The Oxford Book of SchooldaysPatricia Craig Oxford University Press, 1994 - 430 עמודים `School', wrote Henry Green, `is no odder than the world outside, only more concentrated.' It is also an experience that everyone has to undergo, and many people have left accounts of their schooldays inspired either by repugnance or regret. The old school, whether you compare it to a Fascist state (as W.H. Auden famously did), a hothouse, a prison, or a place of lost content, remains with you for the rest of your life. Drawing on fiction, memoirs, autobiography, poetry, and letters Patricia Craig presents an enthralling selection of attitudes to schools and schooling. All manner of institutions are described, from village schools to state comprehensives, charity schools, public schools, private schools and grammar schools, with some (usually) fond reminiscences of primary schools for good measure. But the emphasis is on individual experience - on the playing field, in the classroom, making friends and enemies, encountering inspiring or eccentric schoolmasters. Pupils and teachers have their say, Miss Jean Brodie alongside Dr Arnold, Winston Churchill rubbing shoulders with Nicholas Nickleby. Through it all run the anarchic exploits of the heroes and heroines of the school story - Billy Bunter and the Greyfriars mob, Stalky and Co., William Brown, Tom Brown, and the creations of T.B. Reed and Angela Brazil. Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, and focusing on Great Britain and Northern Ireland, this anthology sheds incidental light on attitudes to children, educational systems, and the divisions of British society. It will strike a chord with every pupil, past or present, in revealing the glories and defects of British education. |
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תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 54
עמוד 186
... seemed to me a pleasant kindly fair examiner and the children passed a good examination . We presented 35 for examination out of an average attendance of 51 , while Hay school , which was examined yesterday , presented only 42 out of an ...
... seemed to me a pleasant kindly fair examiner and the children passed a good examination . We presented 35 for examination out of an average attendance of 51 , while Hay school , which was examined yesterday , presented only 42 out of an ...
עמוד 327
... seemed to be . There was none of the noise and clamour of a school - room , none of its boisterous play or hearty mirth . The children sat crouching and shivering together , and seemed to lack the spirit to move about . The only pupil ...
... seemed to be . There was none of the noise and clamour of a school - room , none of its boisterous play or hearty mirth . The children sat crouching and shivering together , and seemed to lack the spirit to move about . The only pupil ...
עמוד 378
... seemed to me so reasonable that though I left the school with sadness I did so without repining . Indeed , it was not until compara- tively recently , that is within the past thirty years , that I suddenly realised how odd it was that ...
... seemed to me so reasonable that though I left the school with sadness I did so without repining . Indeed , it was not until compara- tively recently , that is within the past thirty years , that I suddenly realised how odd it was that ...
תוכן
Concerning Education I | 9 |
The World of School | 42 |
Customs Anecdotes Incidents | 88 |
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