theweefreewomen:yesterdaysprint:Katharine Brush in The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, December 9, 1939[
theweefreewomen:yesterdaysprint:Katharine Brush in The Winnipeg Tribune, Manitoba, December 9, 1939[text: Yes, it’s all very well for us adults to pretend to the rising generation that we learned a great deal in school ad remember it all and are very wise, but the fact of the matter is, of course, that this is arrant nonsense. We learned very little, and we remember practically none of it. If you examined the average adult’s mind in search of things he recall from his classroom days, here is what you would find - no more, no less:The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.The French are a gay people, fond of dancing and light wines.Italy is shaped like a boot.Sherman said war was hell.Keats and Shelley were poets, and one of them was drowned.] -- source link
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