English Public Schools

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“He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.”
—Sixteenth-century English proverb.

“Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Herod-like slaughter of the innocents.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)

“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)