school-slavery

Updated: June 5, 2025

I vow I have been more greatly, more nobly employed of late years, than I was when I earned my living at school-slavery teaching to children the most useless, the most disastrous, the most soul-cramping branch of knowledge wherewith pedagogues in their insensate folly have crippled the minds and blasted the lives of thousands of their fellow-creatures elementary mathematics.

William John Locke - The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel