The happiest days?

Abstract

Leeds Grammar School was founded, like most of its predecessors, with such pickings as were left from Henry VIII's monastic takeover; we used to write in the grime of the windows ‘Last Cleaned 1552’. Its motto ‘Nttllius Non Mater Disciplinae’ (rough translation: ‘There's nothing you can't learn here’) was the exact opposite of the truth for the first 200 odd years of its existence, when it taught Latin Grammar and precious little else; it liberalised a little during the 19th century, in spite of a House of Lords action to try to make it stick to its charter and stop teaching mathematics; but the classics held up strongly, under a highly efficient system of railroading the victims at too tender an age for them really to know what was happening. I was one of them at the age of 12, and somehow found myself doing nothing but Latin, Greek and Ancient History for most of my so‐called education.

Citation

Price, C. (1973), "The happiest days?", Education + Training, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 58-59. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001756