POOR OLD OXFORD!
Mr. H. G. Wells doesn't want to see Oxford and Cambridge return to their old lines of life when the war is over.
"For my own part," he writes in the Daily News, "as the father of two sons who are at present in mid-school, I hope with all my. heart that they will not. I hope that the Oxford and Cambridge of unsophistical classics and ( little-go Greek for everybody, don's mathematics, bad French, ignorance of Europe except Switzerland, forensic exercises in the Union Debating Society, and cant about Gothic, the Oxford and Cambridge that turned boys full of life and hope and infinite' possibility into barristers, politicians, monolingual diplomatists, bishops, schoolmasters, company directors, and remittance men., are even now dead.
"We have now before us a phase of opportunity that will never recnr again. Now that the apostolic succession of muffing and pedagogic humbug is broken, and the entire system discredited, it seems incredible that it can ever again be reconstituted in its old seats upon the old lines. In these raw, harsh days of boundless opportunity, the opportunity of the new education is certainly the greatest of all."
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 78, 1 April 1916, Page 11
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