Dr. L. clu Garde Peach, the famous B.B.C. playwright, has made himself highly popular with the present generation of children by dec i prize-giving in the North of Eng and, at which he presided. that if he had his way he would revolution to abolish all and make examinations illegal ing got the school, to a boy, on side he proceeded to y that. pwn up visitors to schools ever had nerve to tell schoolboys that their school cays were their happiest was beyond belief. For himself, he declared himself devoutly thankful that his were ov Dr, Peach certainly did his little best to sow seeds of revolution among school children, for he warned them accepting facts merely on the teacher's unproven word. He thoroughly amused the children, and for once, a prize-giving was bright and sparkling, and the youngsters entirely in agreement with the speaker for the afternoon "Have you ever wakened in the might and thought that the angles the base of an isosceles tr e are equal?" he asked.' "Have you ever kened and thought what an ing it would be if they weren't? Do on think it would matter? As a matter of fact you can take it from me that it wouldn't really matter if all these things worked the other way round. Why then do they want you to come to school to learn things like that?
Dr. Peach contended that facts did not matter. He himself, he said, had had all, sorts of facts punched and poked into him, and now he was a Doctor of Philosophy. He added: When you are a Doctor of Philosophy it means that they have gone on telling you things for so long. ana you are so full of facts that they can't get another into you with dynamite But, what good is it all The speaker added, however, that the real reason why children went to school was so that they might become decent citizens who would not make life a burden to anyone else, and who would not be a danger to the community.
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