Better build schoolrooms for "the boy",
Than cells and gibbets for "the man".

Eliza Cook

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Topic

Education

Author

Eliza Cook

Source

A Song for the Ragged Schools

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Cook, Eliza. A Song for the Ragged Schools. c. 1853.

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Time
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Behold! human beings living in an underground den... Like ourselves... They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Time
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Era
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Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

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Current Citation

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