Euclidian toothache
Young Tom Tulliver makes the case (in vain) that studying Euclid causes toothache. If you allow for psychosomatic effect, he...
Learning as lift off
WritingRedux celebrates language that is alive and pulsating. Â It celebrates the joys and rewards of reading and writing. Â What...
Beware the Bartle blade
Bartle has much learning and little patience with fools or slouchers. As an example of that cutting tongue, here is...
On being learned
Dorothea is the more studious of two sisters and marries an older bookish chap, to the consternation of her relatives....
People of education
Of course, the reproving stepmother has only a social gloss of education, while the girl she criticizes has the deeper...
A straight-cut ditch or a meandering brook
Thoreau's comment about education will resonate today with many teachers and students, but I am glad he included the word...
Beware educated peasants
Naive readers may imagine that an ideology ostensibly serving the masses might have been glad to encounter an educated peasant. ...
Unexpected ignorance, unexpected knowledge
Maggie Tulliver is a girl whose brightness and spirit are constantly curtailed and nearly crushed. Throughout her childhood she is...
Scribbles in the sand
In Couto's superb novel, a disturbed father tries to isolate his sons from life and learning by taking them to...
I shall teach the boy…
The Countess of Gormenghast ponders her personal curriculum for her newborn son, after despatching him to a régime of...
For one awful moment
Timothy and his siblings run away from their strict grandmother and land, unwittingly, at their uncle's place. Ambrose is a...
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