#1238: From the journal that isn't all about boys...
From 'The Parthenon and the Optative':
Of course we meet many people who explain to us that they would have been great readers of poetry if it had not been 'spoiled for them' at school by 'doing' it for examinations of the old kind. It is theoretically possible. Perhaps they would by now have been saints if no one had ever examined them in Scripture. Perhaps they would have been strategists or heroes if they had never been put into the school O.T.C. It may be so: but why should we believe that it is? We have only their word for it; and how do they know?
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