The Schoolmaster of the Future mb-code MP_0119137 30th March 1965

30th March 1965

View of a French Protestant church on St Martin's le Grand

or the quack artist and his assailants'

Workmen in the crypt of the church of St Mary-le-Bow

The Schoolmaster of the Future mb-code MP_0119137 30th March 1965'The Schoolmaster of the Future', 1887. The British workman has come into school to take the boy away in order to teach him a trade that will be more useful to him in life than Trigonometry or Geology. This cartoon accompanies a poem of the same name in which Punch puts forward the view that an artisan of the future must needs learn a craft and develop skills that will stand him in good stead. It is not that book learning is bad for a boy, but 'if a