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

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

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Medium
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Time
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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

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Another quote about Education

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
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And drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism

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Alexander Pope
Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1711 1710s 18th century
Era
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Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 2, l. 215-218.

Current Citation

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