Uit de Oude Doos

Voor het geval mensen er nog van overtuigd zijn dat het vroeger allemaal beter was:

“The [Teacher] Training College day was characteristically a day of lecturesl the electric bell rang every hour to change lecture rooms, the classes filing across the corridor. (…) Compulsory attendance at lectures is the rule, and in many colleges lectures take up the best part of the working day, the subjects ranging from psychology and the principles of ‘method’ to hygiene, housecraft and ‘art.’ Many of these are superfluous, though to cut even the most futile of them is a serious offence. And the sense of frustration and of time wasted is intensified by the methods adopted in the classroom, The information imparted is dry (…), often irrelevant and normally suited to the intelligence of the lowest level of the audience”

Knights, L. C. (1932). “Will Training Colleges bear Scrutiny?” Scrutiny I(3): 247-262.

Voor de anglisten onder u: dit is inderdaad de latere Cambridgeprofessor en Shakespearekenner L.C. Knights.