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/ 6/26/2007 12:57:00 AM
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
“It’s all just mere copying, he replied. Multiply your expenses, and look to the government for support, and sell your soul to the government for the grant. This is the history of our educational movement. And another thing. What a fuss they have learnt to make of sports! As if colleges and schools were a gymnasia, the main business of which is to turn out sturdy idiots. When I think of all the pampering and sentimentality of sports and games! He shuddered. The main business of an educational institution is to shape the mind and character and of course games have their value. Why worship sports, and the eleven stalwart idiots who bring in a shield or a cup? It is all a curse, copying, copying, and copying. We could as well be born monkeys to justify our powers of imitation.”
–The Headmaster, from The English Teacher by RK Narayan. |
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